Data
CNM Data
Cereal Sales: $7.7 Billion
Cereal Boxes Sold: 2.7 billion
Cereal Sales (household): $185 (2013)
(Estimate) $7.7 billion/325.7 million
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People
$23.60 X 4 = 94.40
One person would spend $23.60 per person a year on cereal
Family of 4 spends $94.40 on cereal a year
Americans report spending an average of $151 on groceries weekly
“Americans waste an unfathomable amount of food. In fact, according to a Guardian report released this week, roughly 50 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown away—some 60 million tons (or $160 billion) worth of produce annually, an amount constituting ‘one third of all foodstuffs.’”
( About 50% of groceries are wasted )
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______________________________________________________________________________Data from Experiment
Box 1 (grams)|Box 2 (grams)|Box 3 (grams)
Total Box: 501.00 |499.00 |500.00
Empty Box: 61.00 |59.90 |61.00
Total Unopened Bag: 440.00 |439.25 |441.00
(Bag, Air, Cereal) | |
Total Opened Bag : 440.00 |438.25 |440.00
(Bag, Cereal) | |
Bag Only: 7.00 |7.00 |7.00
Crushed Cereal Only: 16.00 |23.30 |18.00
Uncrushed Cereal Only: 416.00 |410.30 |417.00
Total Weight (g)
Square 1 | 1.1
Square 2 | 1.2
Square 3 | 1.5
Square 4 | 1.2
Square 5 | 0.9
TEST 1 | TEST 2 Prototype (grams)|Simulated (grams)|Prototype (grams)|Simulated (grams) Bag with Cereal: 220 |220 |220 |220
Total Filled Box: 300 |281 |303 |281
Box Only: 81 |61 | |61
Crushed Cereal: 3.3 |27.3 |0.7 |6.4
Bag Only: 5 |5 |5 |5
% of Bag Wasted 1.53% |12.70% |0.33% |2.98%
8.30 | 9.03
times the waste|times the waste