The most important findings of "Statistics on Food Waste for 1999" are the following:

20,609 tons of food waste was collected from large-scale catering establishments. This is from 80 to100 per cent of the estimated potential. The collection was carried out at 2,100 large-scale catering establishments.

2,567 tons of food waste was collected from the retail trade and manufacturing companies. 70 companies participated in the collection scheme and it is estimated that 13 to 53 per cent of the food waste originating from these types of companies is being collected.

Most of the collected food waste is reprocessed into food pulp (18,031 tons) which is sold to 32 pig breeders.

In addition 1,500 tons of meat-and-bone meal or meal/dripping is made from the collected food waste.

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