The indicator is defined as all food waste generated in a country per inhabitant and year.

DATA DOWNLOAD
SiStat Database

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
The indicator is defined as all food waste generated in a country per inhabitant and year.

Food waste includes raw or processed food and remains of this food lost before, during or after food preparation or during food consumption, including food discarded during production, distribution, sale and implementation of food-related services and in households.

Food waste does not cover:

• Remains of food intended for processing into animal fodder in line with EU regulations,
• Food for humanitarian purposes,
• Paper tissues, napkins and towels collected as kitchen waste together with biological waste,
• Packaging discarded together with food waste.

Food waste covers the edible and inedible part of individual foodstuffs.

In accordance with the national methodology all food waste collected by public services for municipal waste collection and collectors of biological waste (i.e. all food waste that ended in the waste treatment system) was included in the final amount of generated food waste. On the other hand, all food that was home composted, used as animal feed or left on farmland (e.g. on fields and gardens) as a surplus or because of insufficient quality was excluded.

UNIT
Kilogram per capita

DATA SOURCE
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Publishing frequency: annually
Indicative date of publication: October
Link to more data: SiStat Database (Theme: Environment; Sub-theme: Waste)

The data enable the display of distributions by: /

Link to methodological explanations: Questionnaires, methodological explanations, quality reports (Theme: Environment; Sub-theme: Waste)

LAST UPDATE OF THE METADATA
19 December 2024