Food-Related Waste Data Analysis

The goal of my project was to keep track of all the food related waste that we produced over the span of three weeks, and see how we can minimize that amount. The method that I used to keep track of my date was to take note of the waste that I produced, and then uploaded it to my Google sheets document later on in the day. Another method that I used was putting it straight onto my Google Sheets document with my phone. In this date set I recorded the amount of food related trash that the people in my household threw away. The data that I put on my Google docs sheet is anything that was thrown away in the trash that was related to food. The categories I choose to include in my data set were plastics, compostable, and paper. I choose these three …show more content…
During this time I was eating a lot of Burger King and fast food in general. I was also eating a lot of oranges because my mom was bringing a lot of them from the store. In this data you can see that I used a lot of plastic water bottles. This is due to the fact that my purifying water system is currently not working. This lead to water bottles being one of my most thrown away food related trash. In this data you can also see that I do not eat a lot different things in a day. I usually just eat one or two large sized portions. In this data one can also see that I ate a lot of chicken, and that I do not eat a lot of red meat. In this data set I was only recording the food that I was throwigng away, not my entire family. I currently live with my aunt, so I do not know what they eat, so I choose to just enter the food that I …show more content…
I can see this from the amount of fast food wrappers that I was eating. I was doing this because I did not have time to cook food at home, so I have to go to a fast food restaurant to be time productive. At that time I went to Burger King a lot because it was the closest thing to me and it was very cheap. I was also eating Yoshinoya every now and them because I really like it. I was surprised from this discovery in the pattern of food related trash. I was surprised because the food that I was eating really is not healthy for me. While the food may have been very inexpensive it wa not good for my body because it was lal processed food. I think I was doing more bad for my bod than good. I think that anthropologist will see that I had a lot of wrappers from one place and conclude many different things, not just one thing. They could think I just really liked going to that place so I got it, or that was all I could afford because it was cheap. They would not be able to conclude to one