Fig. 2: Absolute and relative likely food waste diversion potential across US states. | Nature Food

Fig. 2: Absolute and relative likely food waste diversion potential across US states.

From: State-level policies alone are insufficient to meet the federal food waste reduction goal in the United States

Fig. 2

a,b, Absolute (a) and relative (b) likely food waste diversion potential across US states in 2022. Federal food waste diversion target is shown in green. Coloured segments represent likely ranges for the baseline scenario. Additional solutions modelled in the alternative scenario are depicted as black lines. Blue segments represent diversion pathways as initially defined by the EPA (EPA-2016), whereas green segments reflect the updated EPA methodology (EPA-2021), which excludes recycling. The x axis in a is on a log10 scale. Relative contributions in b were derived from 2022 state food waste generation (Fig. 3) and plotted for the EPA-2021 scenario only.

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