Extended Data Table 2 End-of-life food waste management schemes in the US, EU, China, and total greenhouse gas emissions

From: Food waste used as a resource can reduce climate and resource burdens in agrifood systems

  1. 1 Adapted from USEPA 2023 report (data year 2019)70.
  2. 2 Total amounts from EUROSTAT (report year 2023, data year 2020)71. Distribution pathways are derived using country-specific amounts from EUROSTAT and distribution parameters from Zhu et al.10.
  3. 3 Foundational data of country-level food loss and waste from Xue et al. (2021)71. Distribution pathways are based on the foundational data, combined with assumed collection rates, as well as country-specific distribution parameters from Zhu et al.10.
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