Table 1.
Summary statistics.
Fig 1.
Box plot of plate and beverage waste per student for elementary and other schools.
Scale truncated at 1 lb. per student, which omits 1 elementary observation (1.08 lbs./student) and 2 other school observations (1.35 and 2.39 lbs./student).
Fig 2.
Scatter plot of plate waste from produce and non-produce foods (N = 448).
Axis truncated for purposes of visualization, omitting two observations with larger values.
Table 2.
Average plate and beverage waste by age group (lbs./student/meal).
Table 3.
Total plate and beverage waste regression results.
Table 4.
Waste by food type regression results.
Fig 3.
Total plate and beverage waste per student by duration and starting time of lunch period.
NR = not reported. The starting time refers to a school’s earliest lunch period for schools with multiple lunch periods. (N = 490)