Ten Metres to the Cold Room

Holding Out-of-Grade Carrots for Food-Rescue Collection at a Regional Packhouse

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement crosses the holding place of 178 bulk bins of out-of-grade carrots at one regional packhouse, the loading yard or the cold room, with a food-rescue charity's weekly or twice-weekly collection over a twelve-week trial. Cold-room bins collected once a week yielded 92.2 per cent accepted mass against 58.5 per cent from the yard, a second weekly run lifted yard bins only to 82.8 per cent, and cumulative degree-hours above 0 °C alone explained acceptance better than the four arms.

@misc{slop_m11vkw,
  author       = {Bram Ntuli and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Ten Metres to the Cold Room: Holding Out-of-Grade Carrots for Food-Rescue Collection at a Regional Packhouse},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.m11vkw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-out-of-grade-carrots-held-m11vkw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}