{"id":752,"date":"2026-01-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:02:56","slug":"food-waste-forecast-to-cost-businesses-540-billion-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/food-waste-forecast-to-cost-businesses-540-billion-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste forecast to cost businesses $540 billion in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The economic cost of food waste across the global supply chain is forecast to reach $540 billion by 2026, according to new research.<\/h4>\n

The ‘Making the Invisible Visible: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Food Waste to Drive Growth and Profitability’ report, published by Avery Dennison<\/a>, warns that that the cost of food waste is set to rise from $526 billion last year.<\/p>\n

The report also found that, on average, food waste costs account for 33% of total revenues in the food retail supply chain annually, from post-farm to the point of sale.<\/p>\n

Michael Colarossi, VP, head of enterprise sustainability, Avery Dennison, commented: \u201cFor too long, food waste has been positioned almost exclusively as a sustainability and societal issue. We must recognise it as the business opportunity it truly is.\u201d<\/p>\n

55% of companies surveyed also reported that they do not have a clear understanding of how much food waste happens when goods are being transported.<\/p>\n

Meat also emerged as one of the most difficult categories for waste management, with 72% of supply chain leaders surveyed citing it as their biggest challenge.<\/p>\n

The economic modelling forecasts meat waste to amount to $94 billion in lost output across the global supply chain in 2026, almost one-fifth of the total cumulative loss across the year, with fresh produce closely behind at $88 billion.<\/p>\n

The research, which surveyed 3,500 global food retailers and supply chain leaders, also found that 61% of businesses say they lack full visibility into where food waste occurs across their operations.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the report, Julie Vargas, Avery Dennison, said: \u201cFood waste has become an accepted cost of doing business, but it doesn\u2019t have to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the right innovation, we can turn this loss into measurable value and shift the conversation on food waste, from being purely seen as a sustainability issue, into a business-critical one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The economic cost of food waste across the global supply chain is forecast to reach $540 billion by 2026, according to new research. The ‘Making the Invisible Visible: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Food Waste to Drive Growth and Profitability’ report, published by Avery Dennison, warns that that the cost of food waste is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}