Waste
Food Waste Cost Calculator
Estimate the financial cost of food waste from wasted food value, disposal costs and recoverable value.
Use the average purchase, production or ingredient value of the food being wasted.
Optional total value recovered through resale, donation, redistribution or another recovery route.
Total Food Waste Cost
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Estimated net financial loss associated with the entered food waste quantity.
Food value lost
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Disposal cost
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Recoverable value
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Net cost for entered period
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Net cost per kg wasted
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Estimated monthly cost
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Estimated annual cost
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Method:
Food Value Lost =
Food Waste Quantity x Food Cost per kg
Disposal Cost =
Food Waste Quantity x Disposal Cost Rate
Net Food Waste Cost =
Food Value Lost + Disposal Cost – Recoverable Value
The calculator converts all waste quantities internally to kilograms.
Period conversion is used only to estimate monthly and annual costs.
Daily values are annualized using 365 days.
Weekly values are annualized using 52 weeks.
Monthly values are annualized using 12 months.
Annual values are used directly.
A single quantity is not annualized.
This calculator estimates direct financial loss only. It does not include labor, cooking energy, refrigeration, water, transport, procurement administration or other upstream costs unless those costs are already incorporated into the entered food cost.
Waste
Food Waste Cost Calculator
Estimate the financial cost of food waste from wasted food value, disposal costs and recoverable value.
Use the average purchase, production or ingredient value of the food being wasted.
Optional total value recovered through resale, donation, redistribution or another recovery route.
Total Food Waste Cost
–
Estimated net financial loss associated with the entered food waste quantity.
Food value lost
–
Disposal cost
–
Recoverable value
–
Net cost for entered period
–
Net cost per kg wasted
–
Estimated monthly cost
–
Estimated annual cost
–
Method:
Food Value Lost =
Food Waste Quantity x Food Cost per kg
Disposal Cost =
Food Waste Quantity x Disposal Cost Rate
Net Food Waste Cost =
Food Value Lost + Disposal Cost – Recoverable Value
The calculator converts all waste quantities internally to kilograms.
Period conversion is used only to estimate monthly and annual costs.
Daily values are annualized using 365 days.
Weekly values are annualized using 52 weeks.
Monthly values are annualized using 12 months.
Annual values are used directly.
A single quantity is not annualized.
This calculator estimates direct financial loss only. It does not include labor, cooking energy, refrigeration, water, transport, procurement administration or other upstream costs unless those costs are already incorporated into the entered food cost.