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A machine learning methodology was followed, starting with the creation of a custom dataset of canteen plates images before and after lunch or dinner, and data augmentation techniques were applied to enhance the model\u2019s robustness. Subsequently, a CV model was developed using YOLOv11 to classify the percentage of FW on a plate, distinguishing between edible food items and non-edible discarded material. To evaluate the performance of the model, we used a real dataset as well as three benchmarking datasets with food plates, in which it could be detected waste. For the real dataset, the system achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.343, a precision of 0.62, and a recall of 0.322 on the test set as well as demonstrating high accuracy in classifying waste considering the traditional evaluation metrics on the benchmarking datasets. 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