Calculate food waste cost, pounds wasted, meals wasted, landfill impact, CO2 emissions, compost potential, and yearly savings. Use this food waste calculator for households, kitchens, restaurants, cafeterias, schools, offices, gardens, compost programs, and waste reduction planning.
Food waste cost:
The calculator multiplies food spending by the waste percentage to estimate money lost to wasted food.
Food waste weight:
Enter food waste weight and period to estimate weekly, monthly, and annual waste.
Meals wasted:
The calculator compares food waste weight and cost to average meal weight and average meal cost.
Compost and CO2 impact:
Estimate compostable pounds, landfill cost avoided, compost value, CO2e impact, and potential savings from reducing waste.
A food waste calculator helps estimate the cost, weight, meal equivalent, and environmental impact of wasted food.
It can be useful for households, restaurants, schools, cafeterias, offices, grocery stores, compost programs, gardens, sustainability reports, and food waste reduction planning.
Your result shows estimated wasted food cost, food waste weight, meals wasted, avoidable waste, edible waste, compostable waste, landfill disposal cost, composting cost, compost created, CO2e impact, methane reduction estimate, and potential savings from reaching your waste reduction goal.
Multiply food spending by the estimated percentage of food wasted. For example, $800 per month at 20% waste equals $160 per month in wasted food.
Food waste can include spoiled food, plate scraps, expired food, unused ingredients, overproduction, prep waste, and edible food that is thrown away.
Composting reduces landfill impact, but it does not recover the money, labor, water, energy, and resources used to produce edible food. Prevention usually saves the most.
No. It is an estimate. Actual food waste depends on food prices, serving sizes, shopping habits, storage, recipes, spoilage, composting method, disposal costs, and waste tracking accuracy.