scholarly journals Food waste volume and composition in households in Greece

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Food Item ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
Capita Food ◽  
Per Capita

<p>The purpose of this paper is the presentation of the results compiled from self weighing of household food waste and self filling of waste collection diaries that took place in Greece. A diary was compiled and given to 101 urban households in various areas of the country. The participants were asked to weigh and write down in the diary every food item wasted in their households for two full weeks (i.e., 14 days). The total per capita food waste generation in Greece is estimated to be 76.1 (±68.3) kg/inh.y. This figure is divided into the avoided food waste fraction which equals to 25.9 (±34.9) kg/inh.y, and the unavoidable fraction which is estimated to be 50.2 (±47.1) kg/inh.y. The use of diaries for recording food that is thrown away from households is a methodology that underestimates the food wasted in households because households tend to be cautious when they know that they have to weigh and report the amount of food that they throw away. The current research is the first of its kind, presenting actual field data for food waste generation by households in Greece.</p>

scholarly journals Integrated Strategies for Household Food Waste Reduction in Bangkok

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7651
Author(s):  
Pongsun Bunditsakulchai ◽  
Chen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Integrated Strategies ◽  
Household Food

Urban food waste issues in developing economies have recently attracted the attention of policymakers, practitioners, and academics in the course of implementing the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. In our case study city of Bangkok, Thailand, household food waste generation doubled from 2003 to 2018, with a similar increase in per capita amounts. Using an extensive literature review, statistical models, and a questionnaire survey, the authors clarified factors influencing food waste generation and separation before disposal, and reuse/recycling activity in urban households. Results showed that pre-purchase checks can not only prevent food waste but can also increase the reuse/recycling of food waste. Citizens with higher levels of education and those showing more concern about social issues and global warming are more likely to separate food waste before disposal and to participate in reuse/recycling activities. Finally, this paper proposes a seven-stage action-based model of integrated strategies for improving household food and food waste management to prevent/reduce food waste generation as well as remedy existing policy gaps in Bangkok.

Urban household food waste: drivers and practices in Toronto, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Li ◽  
Virginia Maclaren ◽  
Tammara Soma
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Composition Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Waste Composition ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Capita Food ◽  
Per Capita

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand determinants of food waste through analysing patterns of practices including shopping, planning, consumption of leftovers and attitudes around best-before dates.Design/methodology/approachA survey and waste composition analysis of 142 households was conducted in the City of Toronto. Bivariate analyses and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using a structural equation model were used to identify relationships between per capita food waste, household socio-demographic characteristics and household food practices.FindingsConstructs related to planning practices and best-before date practices were identified through the CFA. Household size and the best-before construct were negatively correlated with per capita food waste. The planning construct had no correlation, which may be attributed to the influence of the retail environment in encouraging unplanned purchases. The best-before construct was significantly correlated with the presence of children in the home, an indicator of the compromises that parents make in domestic provisioning to ensure healthy foods for their children, such as more caution in handling items after their best-before dates.Originality/valueThis is the first study of its kind that uses directly measured per capita food waste from a waste composition study in a structural equation model with a construct related to best-before dates to determine drivers of food waste. It is also the first to find that children in the home can have an indirect influence on food waste through the household's best-before practices.

scholarly journals The Effect of Consumer Perception on Food Waste Behavior of Urban Households in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5676
Author(s):  
Panpan Zhang ◽  
Dan Zhang ◽  
Shengkui Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Consumer Perception ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Urban Household ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Positive Index

Food waste has become a global problem, causing widespread concern in all sectors of society. Many scholars and institutions have researched this issue from different perspectives, but theoretical and empirical research on food waste from the perspective of consumer perception is still limited. Therefore, this study constructs a theoretical framework based on food waste behavior of households and empirically analyzes the effect of consumer perception on food waste by 273 Chinese urban households eating at home. The reliable urban household food waste data are based on a combination of household questionnaire surveys, bookkeeping surveys, weighing surveys, and semi-structured interviews in 2018. The survey site is Zhengzhou City in Henan Province. The results show that the higher urban household consumer perception positive index, the smaller the amount of food waste per capita per meal, and the higher urban household consumer perception negative index, the greater the amount of food waste per capita per meal. These results suggest consumer perception affects urban household food waste behavior significantly. We need to encourage consumers to form a joint effort to change consumer perception about food waste in order to reducing food waste.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Household Food Waste Generation and its Associated Caloric and Nutrient Losses: The Case of Lebanon

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. e0225789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Chalak ◽  
Mohamad G. Abiad ◽  
Mohamad Diab ◽  
Lara Nasreddine
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Household Food

Preliminary drivers associated with household food waste generation in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fhumulani Ramukhwatho ◽  
Roelien duPlessis ◽  
Suzan Oelofse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Household Food

scholarly journals The Media of Washatiyah Dakwah in Quranic Exegesis Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 932-946
Author(s):  
Julius M. Huho ◽  
Rose C. Kosonei ◽  
Peter, K. Musyimi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Bakery Products ◽  
Sociodemographic Determinants ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Capita Food ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Per Capita Consumption

Food waste occurs when food is ready for consumption but not consumed. Food waste has considerable social, economic and environmental impacts. Even though it has become a global concern, no comprehensive studies on food waste in Kenya is available. This study sought to establish the sociodemographic determinants of households’ food waste in Garissa sub-county, in Garissa County, Kenya. A total of 165 consumers were involved in the study. Bakery products were the most wasted. The per capita food wasted was 6.1 kg/person/year or approximately 5.1 tonnes (equivalent to 39,352,110 Kcal) for Garissa County. At a per capita consumption of 2360 Kcal/ person/day, the food wasted was enough to feed 16,674 people for one day. Males were more wasteful than females. Food waste was higher in households: headed by people aged 25 – 34 years; with higher income; with urban residency and with large sizes. Annually, Kshs 9600 (US$96) per household was lost from the wasted food translating to a loss of Kshs 1.4 billion (US$ 13.6 million) from the 141,353 households in Garissa County. With guidance and good policies, food waste can be managed since the majority of the consumers were concerned about food waste and had intentions to reduce it.

scholarly journals Food Waste of Italian Families: Proportion in Quantity and Monetary Value of Food Purchases

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1920
Author(s):  
Vittoria Aureli ◽  
Maria Luisa Scalvedi ◽  
Laura Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Food Expenditure ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Capita Food ◽  
Per Capita

Halving per capita food waste (FW) is one of the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals. This study aims to evaluate the weight and monetary values of food waste among a sample of Italian families. In a representative sample of 1142 families, the adults responsible for food purchases and in charge of preparing meals were assessed with a self-administrated questionnaire measuring quantity and typology of FW. These data were linked with food purchases figures measured as an average of four weeks. Italian families wasted 399 kg of food per week (4.4% of the weight of food purchased), which correspond to a monetary value of €1.052 (3.8% of the overall food expenditure). Clustering the food groups according to waste quantity, typology, and monetary value made it possible to show that price has a role in the generation of food waste, as the lower the unitary cost, the higher the quantity of waste. Consequently, foods with high unitary costs were less wasted. The results of this study showed that Italian consumers are sensitive to the economic impact of waste and this should be considered in sensitization campaigns.

Household food waste quantification: comparison of two methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 1504-1515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathilde Delley ◽  
Thomas A. Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Household Food ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to quantify household food waste by using two different methods. A comparison of the results highlights a divergence between the perceived contribution to the problem and more objective measurements.Design/methodology/approachSelf-reported quantities, collected by means of a postal survey sent out to a random sample of the French- and German-speaking Swiss population, were compared to extrapolations from a national waste compositional analysis report.FindingsThe results of the self-reported survey showed 8.9 kg of avoidable and possibly avoidable household food waste per capita per year, whereas calculations based on the second method resulted in a total of 89.4 kg of mostly avoidable household food waste per capita per year.Research limitations/implicationsThis striking tenfold discrepancy between the two sets of results highlights the extent of under-reporting in self-assessment and speaks in favour of using more objective methods to quantify food waste, building on the example of the second method used in this study.Practical implicationsThe discrepancy highlighted here could be used as a hook in an awareness-raising campaign to highlight everyone’s contribution to the food waste issue and encourage citizens to reconsider their behaviour and adopt recommended behavioural changes.Originality/valueBy highlighting the divergence between self-reported and actual waste management facts and figures, this paper justifies the need to develop measures to encourage citizens to reconsider their attitudes and practices.

Estimating Total and Per Capita Food Waste in Brazilian Households

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Glenio Piran Dal’ Magro ◽  
Edson Talamini
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Capita Food ◽  
Per Capita
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