Food waste rises +8% in Italy, poverty alarm - Food and Health. At home we will go from 75 grams of food thrown away every day per person in 2023, to almost 81 grams in 2024, basically over half a kilo (566.3 grams) This is 8.05% more waste than a year ago, for a cost of 290 euros per family per year and 126 euros per capita.
Counting in hand, the overall food waste in Italy is worth over 13 billion.