Good food deserves good evidence.

A large, measured problem—carefully described.

UNEP’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 estimates that 1.05 billion tonnes of food waste were generated at household, food service and retail level in 2022. That is approximately 19% of food available to consumers. The report estimates food service at 290 million tonnes.

UNEP’s figures include edible and inedible parts. They are not a count of meals, and they are not Last Bite impact numbers. The “more than one billion meals a day” language is UNEP’s communication equivalence, not a Last Bite conversion.

Local context, without pretending the data is broader than it is.

A UNEP study estimated household food waste in Qatar at about 93 kg per person per year. The estimate refers to households. It should not be read as a single national figure covering restaurants, hotels, retail and households together.

Qatar’s food-loss and waste evidence base continues to develop. That is useful context for Last Bite: commercial surplus is something to measure through real operating data, not something to infer from a household estimate.

The words do different jobs.

• Food loss generally describes losses earlier in the food supply chain, from production through and up to—but excluding—retail.
• Food waste in the UNEP consumer-level framing covers food and associated inedible parts discarded at household, food service and retail level.
• Surplus is eligible food that remains available or unsold at a particular point in time. It is a condition, not a final destination.
• Redistributed describes a completed collection through Last Bite when that measurement is available. It does not mean a landfill diversion or a carbon saving by default.

What we plan to measure first.

The strongest future environmental metric is measured kilograms of edible surplus redistributed, supported by completed collection records and a documented method. We also plan to watch the operating signals that make the system honest:

• Completed collections
• Active participating venues
• Measured kilograms of edible surplus redistributed
• Repeat collectors
• Venue cancellations and no-surplus outcomes

Precision is part of the product.

Until Last Bite has verified operating data and a published methodology, we do not claim “meals saved”, CO₂e avoided, litres of water saved, tonnes diverted from landfill, a fixed percentage reduction in venue waste or that every box would otherwise have been thrown away.

We also do not claim to be Qatar’s first surplus-food platform, or official government support. Last Bite is aligned with wider ambitions around sustainable development, food-system resilience and resource efficiency; that is not the same as official endorsement.

A Last Bite experience, inside Wajha.

Last Bite is part of the existing Wajha product ecosystem. Wajha provides the wider world of places and experiences; Last Bite keeps its own food-discovery identity within it. This page uses the existing product relationship and brand assets rather than inventing a new lockup.

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  UNEP · Food Waste Index Report 2024Global food waste estimates, definitions and the Qatar household estimate table.
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  UNEP · World squanders over 1 billion meals a dayPublic summary of the 2022 global estimates and their caveats.
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  UNEP / UN ESCWA · Household Food Waste Baseline in QatarRegional presentation of the Qatar household baseline using UNEP methodology.
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  The Amiri Diwan · Qatar National Vision 2030Official context for Qatar’s sustainable development and environmental-development ambitions.
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  Qatar National Food Security StrategyContext for food-system resilience, domestic markets and reducing waste in the food value chain.