The potential for reducing avoidable food waste arisings from domestic households
The potential for reducing avoidable food waste arisings from domestic households
Unconsumed food has environmental impacts via both the resources used in food production and its disposal. Ideally, householders would generate only unavoidable food waste such as preparation residues and peelings. Reducing avoidable food needs underpinning evidence to ensure that initiatives to alter householders’ behaviour deliver their intended outcomes. The aim of this work was to better understand means to reduce avoidable food waste by establishing where attention should be focused, and whether campaigns to change householders’ behaviour should focus on the financial or environmental impacts of food waste. Analysis of food waste composition in relation to households’ economic status was combined with field trials of interventions, which established that (1) interventions had negligible impacts on food waste composition, and (2) most avoidable food waste comprises fruit, vegetables, bread, and prepared meals. The focus for initiatives to reduce food waste is thus clear, but the potential for information-based campaigns to reduce food waste appears limited
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Smith, M.M.
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Shaw, P.J.
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Williams, I.D.
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Smith, M.M.
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Shaw, P.J.
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Williams, I.D.
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Smith, M.M., Shaw, P.J. and Williams, I.D.
(2014)
The potential for reducing avoidable food waste arisings from domestic households.
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Unconsumed food has environmental impacts via both the resources used in food production and its disposal. Ideally, householders would generate only unavoidable food waste such as preparation residues and peelings. Reducing avoidable food needs underpinning evidence to ensure that initiatives to alter householders’ behaviour deliver their intended outcomes. The aim of this work was to better understand means to reduce avoidable food waste by establishing where attention should be focused, and whether campaigns to change householders’ behaviour should focus on the financial or environmental impacts of food waste. Analysis of food waste composition in relation to households’ economic status was combined with field trials of interventions, which established that (1) interventions had negligible impacts on food waste composition, and (2) most avoidable food waste comprises fruit, vegetables, bread, and prepared meals. The focus for initiatives to reduce food waste is thus clear, but the potential for information-based campaigns to reduce food waste appears limited
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SUM 2014 – Second Symposium on Urban Mining, Bergamo, Italy, 2014-05-19 - 2014-05-21
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