The most important findings of "Statistics on Food Waste for 2000" are the following:

20,825 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.

3,484 tons of food waste was collected from the retail trade and manufacturing companies. At least 70 companies participated in the collection scheme. There is a large uncertainty connected to the estimation of the potential of food waste from companies of this type.

Most of the collected food waste is reprocessed into food pulp (19,229 tons) which is sold to 30 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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