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

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