Wasted food, wasted energy: The embedded energy in food waste in the United States
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This work estimates the energy embedded in wasted food annually in the United States. We calculated the energy intensity of food production from agriculture, transportation, processing, food sales, storage, and preparation for 2007 as 8080 +/- 760 trillion BTU. In 1995 approximately 27% of edible food was wasted. Synthesizing these food loss figures with our estimate of energy consumption for different food categories and food production steps, while normalizing for different production volumes, shows that 2030 +/- 160 trillion BTU of energy were embedded in wasted food in 2007. The energy embedded in wasted food represents approximately 2% of annual energy consumption in the United States, which is substantial when compared to other energy conservation and production proposals. To improve this analysis, nationwide estimates of food waste and an updated estimate for the energy required to produce food for U.S. consumption would be valuable.
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In the U.S., the production of wasted food requires over 25 percent of total freshwater used, about 300 million barrels of oil, and represents two percent of annual energy consumption.
“In the U.S., the production of wasted food requires the expenditure of over 25 percent of the total freshwater used in the U.S., about 300 million barrels of oil (Hall et al. 2009), and represents two percent of annual energy consumption (Cuellar and Webber 2010).”
From Drivers of food waste and their implications for sustainable policy development (2016) · cites this paper as Cuellar and Webber 2010
Lost food has important implications for public health, natural resource use, and resiliency in the face of climate change.
“Lost food has important implications for public health, natural resource use, and resiliency in the face of climate change (Cuellar and Webber, 2010;Dorward, 2012;Lewison et al., 2011;Parfitt et al., 2010), and the issue is gaining traction among a wide range of stakeholders.”
From Wasted seafood in the United States: Quantifying loss from production to consumption and moving toward solutions (2015) · cites this paper as Cuellar and Webber, 2010
Loss prevention would reduce unnecessary production and harvesting, which would improve the ecological sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture, contribute to increased future food security, and reduce the carbon and energy used in production and trade per unit of seafood consumed.
“Loss prevention would reduce unnecessary production and harvesting, which would improve the ecological sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture, contribute to increased future food security, and reduce the carbon and energy (Cuellar and Webber, 2010) used in production and trade per unit of seafood consumed.”
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- Authors
- Cuéllar, A. D., & Webber, M. E.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Webber, Michael E.
- ORCID
- Webber, Michael E.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2010-07-21
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 6464-6469
- ISSN
- 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5851
- PMC
- PMC2922696
- OpenAlex
- W2133718480
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 24.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Science & Technology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Keywords
- food waste, embodied energy, energy consumption, food loss, food transport, food processing, food storage, cooking, energy conservation, United States
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Conservation of Energy Resources, Food, Food Handling, Thermodynamics, Transportation, United States, Waste Products, United States Department of Agriculture
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