Moderator: Brian Chen

US: Efi Gabriel

Europe: Joseph Elomina
Developed Asia: Edmark Aldea
Philippines (Big Supermarkets): Ykcam Peralta
Philippines (Small Supermarkets): Joy Lumantas

I. Introduction

A. Hook: Up to one-third of the worlds food, which is about 1.3 billion tons, gets

rotten before it is consumed (FAO, 2011).

B. Background of the Topic: According to stergren et al. (2014), food waste

occurs when an edible item goes unconsumed as a result of human action or

inaction and is often the result of a decision made farm-to-fork by businesses,

governments, and individual consumers.

C. Thesis Statement: Food waste management practices in supermarkets vary around

the world, developed countries mostly have practices in managing food waste

while developing countries mostly do not have.

D. Credibility Statement: The group has done extensive research about the topic.

E. Introduce Moderator and Speakers of Main Points

II. Body

A. Food Waste Management Practices of Supermarkets in the United States

1. Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act

a. Encourage food industries to donate to nonprofit organizations

(Kileen,2015)
 b. Extinguishes the donors liability in donating food to food banks

and dispensaries, except in the case of gross negligence (U.S.

Government Publishing Office, n.d.)

2. Perishable Donations Partnership (Food Waste Reduction Alliance, 2016)

a. Aims to tackle problems like hunger and avoiding food waste in

landfills

b. Edible food that is not sold will be donated to food banks

3. Food Recovery Hierarchy

a. Reduce the surplus of food

b. Excess food will be donated to food banks

c. Non-perishable foods will be used for feeds of animals or

converted to energy

d. Food Disposal

B. Food Waste Management Practices in the Europe

1. Laws Regarding Food Waste

a. Supermarkets in France are prohibited from throwing away food

b. Supermarkets in Italy are encouraged to donate unsold food.

2. Food Waste Management Practices

a. Suppliers produce the right amount of food that is sold.

b. Unsold food are donated to local charity partners (Searle, 2016).

c. Getting the products straight from the suppliers.

3. Benefits of Practices
 a. Able to generate energy from food waste (British Retail

Consortium, 2015).

b. Prevent sending food waste to landfill.

C. Food Waste Management Practices of Supermarket in the Asia

1. About 28 million metric tons of food is being wasted by consumers and

327 million metric tons of food is lost due to production, postharvest,

processing, and distribution problems in Southeast Asia (FAO, 2011-d).

2. A retail company in Thailand aims to grow its network for local growers

so that it can get the freshest produce directly from local growers at lower

prices. (Tesco, 2013)

3. A supermarket in China uses accurate forecast data to determine when

goods should be replenished. (Xu, L., Xu, Q., & Liu, 2014)

4. A Japanese company turns food waste into compost used in farms. (Aeon,

2015)

D. Food Waste Management Practices of Big Supermarkets in the Philippines

(Campos et. al., 2017)

1. Rustans food management

a) Food waste was mostly described by a supermarket employee in

Rustans to be perishable goods. Fresh produce are most prone

to food wastage.
 b) Rustans doesnt have any concrete food waste management

practices, since they believe that by increasing sales they lower the

percentage of food waste.

c) Rustans used to give their food that are near expiry to charity in

Rizal. However, due to fear of liabilities they stopped this practice.

d) Rustans throw their food waste in the garbage outside the

supermarket, they douse the food waste with diesel or soapy water

to avoid legal liabilities in the case that scavengers get the food

waste.

e) Another food waste management practice is bundling. Rustans

employ a progressive markdown strategy when bundling their near

expiry products.d.

2. SM Supermarket

a) Food waste management practices is standard for all SM

supermarkets.

b) SM has minimal food waste because they forecast demand of the

products, and follow a principle of replenish what is, which is

similar to just-in-time.

c) When near expiry items are present SM talks to the supplier to

request for bundling and discounts. SM doesnt bundle items

without the consent of the supplier or manufacturer.

 d) Other food wastes are brought to their material recovery facility to

be segregated, which is then collected by a hauler. It is the

discretion of the hauler on what to do with the food waste.

E. Food Waste Management Practices of Smaller Supermarkets in the Philippines

(Campos et. al., 2017)

1. Makati Supermart

a) An employee mentioned that food waste is inevitable in

supermarkets. She further provided an example regarding fruits

and vegetables from Baguio that become spoilt during transit.

b) Customers also contribute to food waste in the supermarket. Most

customers complain when a lot of the fruits sold are ugly. Because

of this Makati Supermart sometimes throw fruits and vegetables

that are deemed ugly.

c) For Makati Supermart to lessen waste they sell their unsold

bananas to local manufacturer of ketchup.

d) Similar to most supermarkets mentioned, Makati Supermart

bundles food items that are near expiry.

2. Welcome Supermart

a) Welcome practice the first in, first out rule in their warehouses to

avoid food waste.

b) Food items that are nearing expiration are sold to hotels,

restaurants, and caterers. This is because they immediately use the

 product. If not, they are bundled with other products or priced

lower.

c) Most of the time they sell their products that are about to expire in

a few days to an eatery beside the supermarket. This is a win-win

situation for them since they are able to sell an item that is nearing

expiry, and at the same time the eatery was able to buy ingredients

at a discount.

d) They sell near expiry items to their employees at a discount

e) They sell rotting fresh produce to farm as pig feed or compost.

III. Conclusion

A. Review of Main Point: It can be seen that supermarkets in United States, and

countries in Europe have policies and more practices in food waste management

as compared to developing countries like Philippines who have less food waste

management practices.

B. Thesis Restatement: There are many food waste management practices in the

supermarket around the world. This varies per country, developed countries have

laws, bills, and more intricate supermarket initiatives while developing countries

have less.

C. Final Remarks

D. Q&A

E. End
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