Nowadays the waste in the catering consumption sector is very severe.With the improvement of living standards of residents and the increase of dine out,the amount of food waste presents a further tendency to expand.There is a lack of effective countermeasure.Taking catering consumption sector as an example,the main causes of waste were studied in the aspects of dining mode,catering system,mar-ket competition mechanisms.The control measures were proposed,such as creating a dining environment of saving,advocating separate dining system,building the mechanism of rewarding saving and opposing wast...