Dossier - October 30, 2017
Dossier: Food waste
Nederlanders gooien jaarlijks krap vijftig kilo eten per persoon weg. Dat is niet alleen verspilling van geld (zo’n 150 euro per burger per jaar), maar ook een verspilling van grondstoffen die nodig waren om het voedsel te maken. Wageningen UR doet daarom veel onderzoek naar mogelijkheden om voedselverspilling terug te dringen.
Een van de grootste boosdoeners van voedselverspilling is de 'tenminste houdbaar tot'-datum. Consumenten denken vaak, ten onrechte, dat die datum iets zegt over de voedselveiligheid. Tot aan de tht-datum garandeert de fabrikant de kwaliteit (smaak, textuur, geur, kleur). Ook na die tijd zijn voedingsmiddelen vaak nog prima eetbaar.
Meer eten inkopen dan nodig en te veel eten klaarmaken leiden ook tot veel verspilling.
Dit dossier bevat artikelen en video's van Resource over voedselverspilling.
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Discarded food in canteens to be weighed
- This week and next, students will be standing next to the waste bins in the WUR canteens to help people sort their waste properly. They are helping... 0 -
Smash your trash!
- Four ways we make sure the AID is sustainable 0 -
First waste shelf in the Netherlands to be launched in Wageningen
- Next Tuesday, the first ‘Verspilling is Verrukkelijk’ (‘Waste is Scrumptious’) shelf will be inaugurated at Jumbo Verberne in... 8 -
No good alternative for killing male chicks
- Around 40 million one-day-old chicks are killed every year in the Netherlands. There are alternatives, but no one option gets overwhelming support... 0 -
Food Symposium
- The debate got going and the microphone flew around the room at the Food Symposium on Saturday 23 September. 0 -
Research agenda to improve food system
- The second Mansholt lecture, on 20 September in Brussels, will be all about sustainable production of healthy food. In this lecture, WUR will explain... 0 -
New research facility Phenomea finished
- How can one make apples in storage last as long as possible? And how does one provide ripe avocados all year round? These are the type of questions... 0 -
Large-scale study into healthy food systems
- Wageningen food researcher Inge Brouwer will be leading a 24-million-dollar research programme that will analyse food systems for healthy diets in... 0 -
New: taskforce to combat food waste
- At the National Food Summit in The Hague today, WUR is launching a taskforce called Circular Economy for Food. The participating food producers... 0 -
‘The food sector needs a drastic overhaul’
- Researchers at Wageningen University & Research argue for a radical change in our diet and food production in order to improve our climate and... 0
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