Since 2006, Roskilde festival has been working to reduce food waste. This has brought several good projects, such as Stop Waste of Food there back in 2014, where there was collected up to 27 tons of food for homeless people. But how much is the food waste really and can it even answer to collect it all from the booths?
That question answers the students by:
- Develop a food log (see food log), handed out to a representative number of food stalls.
- Check / inspect the Food Log to be filled in correctly.
- Collect and analyze data subsequently.
The goal of data collection is to map the food waste through the festival. On this data it will be possible to make new exciting initiatives and projects where food waste can be further reduced. In addition, data collection can deliver financial impact to the booth next year that can compare last year's purchases with the amount of discarded goods and thus optimize their purchases.
At the Roskilde Festival in 2017, the food waste in selected stalls in the Food Court was registered in a customized food log. Six stalls had agreed to participate in the registration before the festival and another two joined the festival during the week.
In the food log, the booths would note:
- What they threw out
- How much was thrown out (estimate)
- The reason for the thrown out
The group has subsequently developed a small clear report to each of the participating stalls on how to optimize food waste next year.