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Businesses and institutions in just six per cent of Montreal's mapped area account for about 100,000 tonnes of food waste sent to landfill each year – half of the total amount from non-household sources in the city as a whole.

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Xiaowen Ni. Image originally appeared in "Quantifying uncertainty in food waste across an urban area: The role of industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors," by Ni et al, Sept. 30, 2026 in the journal Waste Management.

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