Food weighing in Finland

We did a food waste project in our school. After all the students in our school had eaten their daily lunch the students were told to bring their food waste to the buckets in the canteen. We measured the amount of food waste each class left. Class 2A had the least amount of waste (0,564 grams per student in the class, 14,1 grams in total) and class 2-3e had the biggest amount of waste (58,75 grams per student in the class, 470 grams in total). After this the winner got a prize and we gave ice cream to each student in class 2A.

The amount of food waste for the whole school was 7,9 kilos. So in average, each student put 17,2 grams of food in the food waste bucket.

So here are the results:

(Written by Atte, Arttu S. and Panu)

Class (number of students):	The average amount of waste per student:
1-2a (21)	4,60g
1-2b (21)	3,46g
1a (20)	2,10g
1b (19)	66,69g
2-3e (20)	58,75g
2a (25)	0,564g
3a (21)	8,49g
3b (21)	7,55g
4a (25)	17,69g
4b (24)	1,2g
5ae (24)	11,8g
5b (20)	0,7g
5c (22)	15,51g
6a (24)	13,5g
6b (24)	17,2g
6e (7)	5,2g
7a (25)	27,66g
7b (24)	15,8g
8a (19)	51,77g
8b (23)	51,21g
9a (20)	49,05g
9b (22)	47,6g
In total: 459 students	All the classes in total: 7,9 kilos. The average amount per student: 17,2 grams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A presentation on the city of Espoo written by Oona K., Oona R. and Iina (7th grade)

A presentation on the city of Espoo

Weighing of leftovers in school of Alovė

REPORT

Weighing of leftovers in the canteen of the lower secondary school of Alovė,

22 January, 2015

Pupils of the 7th grade did a survey about food waste in the school canteen. They also interviewed participants of the project “Teenagers being innovators” about food waste and leftovers in their homes.

All students answered that there sometimes are leftovers of soup after dinner at their homes but these leftovers are usually given to animals, mostly dogs.  Leftovers of food are very seldom thrown away at home.

Results of the survey about food waste in the school canteen

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·         There were 77 pupils who had lunch on the 22^nd of January

·         There were 4.7 kg of leftovers: soup, vegetables, drink.  

      Every pupil left about 0.06 kg of food or drink. They leave garnish, vegetables, soup and drink more often than meat, sausages or pancakes.

·         Pupils like pancakes and schnitzels but they don’t like goulash very much.

·         The cooks of the canteen noticed that pupils who have to pay for lunch usually don’t leave leftovers.

·         However, pupils from social supported families leave more food leftovers as they don’t have to pay for lunch.

·         Older pupils more often leave food leftovers than younger ones as they buy some snacks in the shop before lunch in the school canteen.

To sum up, there are always food leftovers in our school canteen. The situation could be better if pupils wouldn’t buy snacks in the local shop before the lunch break.

The survey was done by Simona Aleksandravičiūtė, 7^th grade,

Neringa Matulevičiūtė, 7^th grade

Albinas Žemaitis, 7^th grade

Photos were taken by Kamilė Balynaitė, 7^th grade