Research Brief: Social Science Literature Review on Value of Measuring and Reporting Food Waste

ELI’s Food Waste Initiative conducts research and works with stakeholders to prevent food waste, increase surplus food donation, and recycle the remaining food scraps. The Initiative aims to help stakeholders meet the U.S. food loss and waste goals by designing and implementing public policies and public-private initiatives to prevent food waste, increase donations of surplus food, and expand food scrap recycling. To learn more about the Initiative’s work, visit: https://www.eli.org/food-wasteinitiative/food-waste-prevention-recovery-and-recycling.

ELI’s Food Waste Initiative is publishing a Research Brief Series to present takeaways from the Initiative’s research, spanning a range of topics important to food waste prevention, recovery, and recycling. To access other research briefs in the series, visit: https://www.eli.org/food-wasteinitiative/publications. Social Science Literature Review on Value of Measuring and Reporting Food Waste is a review of relevant social science literature that indicates simply measuring waste or emissions can motivate behavior change, due to increased awareness as well as reputational and financial concerns of measuring entities