Although food production is the main driver of global environ- mental change, additionally one-third of the global food supply gets lost or discarded every year (FAO, 2013). In the European Union (EU) alone, almost 90 million tonnes of food are lost each year, or 173 kg per person (FUSIONS, 2016). Despite the high level of attention paid to this issue, there is still no reliable or compara- ble data at the EU level on how much food gets discarded at differ- ent stages of production, distribution and consumption, partly due to mismatches in the defining of food waste, and partly because of the different methodologies of monitoring and reporting of quanti- ties (Vittuari et al., 2015). Moreover, the available literature neither provides a uniform definition of food waste, nor is it in compliance with the data on the amounts of waste generated at individual stages of the food chain (Garrone et al., 2014; Møller et al. 2014, Falasconi et al., 2015). One of the suggested definitions of food waste was proposed by FUSIONS (2014) – an EU project with the aim to establish the monitoring, tracking and reporting on food waste for EU Member States according to this unique methodology.