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Reasons to throw away rice and pasta in Flanders (Belgium) 2017-2018
The statistic displays the results of a survey of reasons to throw away rice and pasta in Flanders (Belgium) in 2017 and 2018. The survey results indicate that within the time-frame considered, the main reason that rice and pasta were thrown away in Flemish households was that the quantity cooked or prepared was too large. Roughly 65 percent of respondents indicated that too much had been cooked. Just under 70 percent of respondents indicated that they threw away rice or pasta because they had made too much, while roughly ten percent did so because the product had expired.