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“For example, in 2008, the United States of America (USA) produced three large waste streams consisting of grain (US$ 34,791 million), vegetables (US$ 103,417 million), and fruits (US$ 62,146 million) at considerable economic cost [13].”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“Buzby and Hyman in 2012 [13] estimated the total value of meat product waste in the USA at US$ 83,127 million.”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“And in the USA around 9% of all egg wastes are produced in the retail sector and consumers produce 14% as seen in Table 7 [13].”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“and USA retailers were found to waste around 9% of all dairy products as seen in Table 7 [13].”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“Research into retail and consumer waste has shown that consumers in the USA are the major contributor to fish waste.”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“Interestingly, the trend in waste by consumers has steadily increased from 16% in 1995 to 31% in 2010 despite having efficient transport and storage facilities [13, 17, 58].”
From Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy (2016) · cites this paper as [13]
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“Definitions of food waste are not universally agreed upon (Lebersorger and Schneider 89 2011), which makes studying and quantifying food waste difficult (Buzby and Hyman 2012).”
From Drivers of food waste and their implications for sustainable policy development (2016) · cites this paper as Buzby and Hyman 2012
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“Specific causes include (1) unpurchased specialty holiday food; (2) damaged packaging; (3) damaged or inadequately prepared items; (4) overstocking or over-preparation of food; (5) routine kitchen preparation waste; and (6) out-grading/quality control (Buzby and Hyman 2012).”
From Drivers of food waste and their implications for sustainable policy development (2016) · cites this paper as Buzby and Hyman 2012
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“In particular, countries that are rapidly growing and evolving, such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC), do not have data on food waste (Parfitt et al., 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Buzby, J. C., & Hyman, J.
- Affiliations
- Economic Research Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Buzby, Jean C.
- ORCID
- Buzby, Jean C.
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-10
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 561-570
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2125009364
- Semantic Scholar
- b3eb87d0d55e3ca1759e9741cd70632b9038eeed
- Cited by
- 660
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 72 · 2019: 69 · 2018: 69 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 44 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 8
- FWCI
- 41.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Keywords
- food loss, household food expenditure, food groups, vegetables, dairy products, food waste, United States
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