Talk:Post-consumer waste

I added a section about excessive waste related to consumers because I thought it was relevant to the topic. Drworm921 (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Sources?
Ajelliot5 (talk) 05:09, 26 April 2022 (UTC)Ajelliot5
 * "The terms of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled materials are not defined in the ISO standard number 14021 (1999) but pre-consumer and post-consumer materials are." Could need a source, especially since there is a figure in the excerpt.
 * "Post-consumer waste accounts for a large amount of food that is wasted." This could be improved upon with actual figures and an appropriate reference. For example, this website (https://research.wri.org/wrr-food/course/reduce-growth-demand-food-and-other-agricultural-products-synthesis) from the World Resources Institute states that around 40% of food produced ends up wasted worldwide. Further, over 60% of food waste in the US comes after consumption both of which were stated in Figure 4 in the article on the website.

Miscellaneous
Ajelliot5 (talk) 05:08, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Ajelliot5
 * Is the section about the legal issues relevant for this article? Could it be more appropriate once the article gets more fleshed out? Legal issues that pertain to post-consumer waste could better be put in articles that involve dumpster diving and legally foraging. This section serves to distract from an already short article and takes away from sections that need more attention.
 * Should this article be part of larger wikipedia projects relating to environmental and waste issues? Could these lead to more viewership and edits occurring?

Suggestions

 * In the Excessive Waste section, "Another way is the way that food is used once it reaches the average consumer household due to many factors, with the main factors being social, behavioral, and personal purchasing habits." This could be expanded on by explaining why social, behavioral, and personal purchasing habits lead to an increase in post-consumer waste. Also, grammar and structuring could be improved upon and made clearer. The last sentence, "Additionally, each of those factors influence each other and affect the amount of food that is wasted per person." seems like filler and adds little to the Excessive Waste section, should be deleted or heavily edited. For example, something like: "To make matters worse, confusing food labeling and food use dependent on different socioeconomic factors compound on each other and lead to a larger amount of food being wasted." This could use a reference or two though.

Ajelliot5 (talk) 05:02, 26 April 2022 (UTC) (talk) 05:02, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Ajelliot5

Wiki Education assignment: Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2024
— Assignment last updated by Warmedforbs (talk) 01:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I will be adding in two citations and two point regarding food waste, 1/3 wasted, and how it impacts our carbon footprint. I will be adding this:

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) discovered that 1/3 of all made food is wasted each year adding up to about 1.3 billion tons of food that was edible. Ishangulyyev, R., Kim, S., & Lee, S. H. (2019). Understanding Food Loss and Waste-Why Are We Losing and Wasting Food?. Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 8(8), 297. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods8080297

Food waste from production to land use changes adds to the world wide carbon footprint with the amount between 2000 to 3600 kg CO2-eq. The focus should be on prevention from within households as each generation are massively increasing their food waste.

Davide Tonini, Paola Federica Albizzati, Thomas Fruergaard Astrup,Environmental impacts of food waste: Learnings and challenges from a case study on UK, Waste Management, Volume 76, 2018, Pages 744-766,ISSN 0956-053X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.03.032. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samsam2102 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)