Food waste impact on Romanian households

Food waste is an increasing issue in the global contexts of food security, scarcity, and the environment. Resources used to generate food raw materials, food processing and distribution have a significant impact on the environment. Our contemporary development pattern, based on consumption stimulation, generates social and geographic disparities, with highly over stimulated consumption in economically developed areas and reduced food availability or even famine in poor communities. As such, we are faced with the both the problems of food waste and food scarcity at the same time. The present article is assessing the Romanian consumer’s food waste impact in 2020, based on data from a nation-wide urban areas statistically representative group.