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Food waste in New Zealand is one of the many environmental issues that is being addressed by industry, individuals and government. The total volume of food wasted in New Zealand is not known as no research to date (2015) has been undertaken to determine commercial or supply chain food waste. However research has been undertaken into household food waste. ==Household food waste== A Waste Not Consulting report to the Ministry for the Environment “Household Waste Data 2008”, calculated that, in 2008, 1,048,993 tonnes of waste were generated by the residential sector, an average of 260 kg per person or 676 kg per household per annum. Over 44% of this household waste was organic, with 24.7% (or 258,886 tonnes) of the total being kitchen waste, and 19.6% being greenwaste (205,526 tonnes).〔http://www.wasteminz.org.nz/pubs/2013-report-on-food-waste-in-new-zealand/〕 More detailed research into food waste generated by households, that was disposed of through curbside rubbish collections, was conducted by Waste Not Consulting in 2014 on behalf of WasteMINZ.〔(WasteMINZ )〕〔http://www.wasteminz.org.nz/pubs/new-zealand-food-waste-audits-2014-2015/〕 The rubbish bins of 1,402 households were studied with their food waste sorted, weighed and costed. The study found that 229,022 tonnes of food is sent to landfill by households annually. Of this approximately 50% or 122,547 tonnes is avoidable food waste. The national cost of avoidable household food waste disposed of to landfill in 2014/2015 was $872 million pa. Eliminating this food waste would have the same effect as reducing CO2 equivalent emissions by 325,975 tonnes – equivalent to planting 130,390 trees or taking 118,107 cars off the road for a year. The average New Zealand household wastes $563 worth of food pa approximately 79 kilos. The top ten foods wasted in 2015 were: # Bread 10% # Left overs 8% # Potatoes 5% # Apples 3% # Poultry 3% # Bananas 3% # Lettuces 3% # Oranges 2% # Pumpkin 2% # Carrots 2%. Statistics on exactly how much edible food is wasted by households and composted, fed to animals or disposed of through a kitchen waste disposal unit is not known. A 2014 survey of 1,365 households found that 66% of those surveyed disposed of some of their food through the council kerbside collection, with 47% disposing of some of their food through composting, 35% through feeding animals and 28% through a kitchen disposal unit.〔http://www.wasteminz.org.nz/pubs/national-food-waste-prevention-study-into-attidutes-towards-food-waste/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Food waste in New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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