Food and beverage manufacturing share of food waste
RecordSTO-H6Q6WFJCGT-5359J53E1N-FT580Y
European Union · 2023
Food and beverage manufacturing share of food waste in the European Union was 19% in 2023 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Amounts of food waste at EU level
- Retrieved
- 18 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The second sector in terms of share (19%) was processing and manufacturing, where the amount of measured food waste was less than 11 million tonnes of fresh mass.
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2023). Food waste and food waste prevention. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H6Q6WFJCGT5359J53E1NFT580Y
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- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Food waste and food waste prevention." 2023, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H6Q6WFJCGT5359J53E1NFT580Y.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Food waste and food waste prevention." 2023. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H6Q6WFJCGT5359J53E1NFT580Y.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2023foodft580y, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Food waste and food waste prevention}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H6Q6WFJCGT5359J53E1NFT580Y}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food\_waste\_and\_food\_waste\_prevention\_-\_estimates. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Food waste and food waste prevention
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Amounts of food waste at EU level
- Retrieved
- 18 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_H6Q6WFJCGT5359J53E1NFT580Y