Living Lab – Household Food Waste Reduction Using Smart Bins

Food production is an essential but resource-intensive industry. Data available for Sweden estimates over 133 kg of food waste per person per year, and the Swedish Food Agency declares that one of the biggest challenges is that there is no available data about the composition of food waste at households. This is especially concerning in light of national and international sustainability goals which require tools to access data.

Start date: 2023-03-01

End date: 2026-02-28

The overall purpose of the current project is to use smart bins as a tool to analyze the composition of household waste. This data will then be used to identify and implement measures that encourage food waste reduction at households. Such knowledge is currently unobtainable but necessary to identify measures and enable tracking of household food waste over time. The effectiveness of the interventions and future prospects of smart bins as tools to identify food waste reduction measures will be objectively and rationally disclosed.