Waste

This group of indicators shows the food losses and residual flows and packaging waste, and how these are recovered.

Indicators

3,485 kt food waste

Food residues and food loss

This indicator shows the amount of food residues and food loss per sector of the Flemish food chain (2015)....

Cascade index 8.2

Valorisation of residual food streams

This indicator shows the valorisation chain and cascade index of the residual food streams per sector in Flanders.

1,391 kt digestate

Processing of residual food streams

This indicator shows the output of the fermentation of residual food streams.

70.5 kt

Proportion of food in residual household waste

This indicator shows how much food waste is not sorted for household collection and therefore ends up in the...

3,909 kt

Collection of organic residual waste

This indicator shows the evolution of the stream of organic residual waste sorted for collection.

783 kt

Food packaging

This indicator shows the evolution of the weight of packaging put on the market (POM) by the members of...

698 kt

Collection of food packaging

This indicator shows the evolution of the sorted collection of packaging waste and, for each type of packaging, also...

27%

Share of food packaging in the residual waste stream

This indicator shows how much food packaging ended up in the residual waste in Flanders in the period 2013-2014....

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Use of input

This group of indicators shows the amount of resources (water, soil, fertilisers, energy…) our primary food production (agriculture) uses.

Loss of input

This group of indicators shows how much and which resources from primary food production (agriculture) ‘leak’ into the environs.

Consumption pattern

This group of indicators shows the food choices made by Flemish households: are they balanced? Are they low-impact? How...