We continue to throw away less and less food. Swedish households’ food waste was 15 kilos per person in 2021, a decrease of two kilos from the year before. The stores’ food waste also decreased.
But the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest survey shows that we still throw away too much food. In total, this is over one million tonnes of food waste.
A third of all food produced is not eaten.
In 2021, almost one million tons of foodstuffs and food were thrown away in Sweden in 2021. This corresponds to 86 kilograms per inhabitant.