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Why and How to Measure Food Loss and Waste

A Practical Guide - Version 1.0

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This guide was developed as part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Operational Plan 2017-2018 and its Measuring and Mitigating Food Loss and Waste project. The goal of the project is to improve measurement of food loss and waste (FLW) across the North American supply chain and to calculate its environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Outputs of this project include this practical guide and a technical report entitled Quantifying Food Loss and Waste and Its Impacts (CEC 2019). Together, these publications offer practical tools, information and activities designed to help facilities, organizations and governments prevent, recover and recycle FLW.

This initial version of the practical guide was pilot tested with different organizations as part of a follow-up project. The lessons learned were used to develop the improved version 2.0 of the guide, which is now available.

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