Attitudes and behaviour towards convenience food and food waste in the United Kingdom

This paper examines the interconnections between gender, class, food security, sustainable food waste, and values. We link feminist economics and ecofeminism in the context of grocery shopping in the United Kingdom. As an environmental and economic issue, food waste is emerging as a global threat, with developed nations grossly contributing to the squander cycle of resources. Such contextualization allows us to both explore the feminist economics perspective, as well as examine routine decision-making by placing it within the larger value system, and connecting it with the sustainability and environmental protection debates. Data were collected on a purchased Smart Survey sample of a UK-wide population, using an approximately 20-minute online questionnaire. A data set of 792 complete responses was included in the analysis. The findings present a dual narrative on grocery shopping. Reduced-priced shopping is often evaluated by women as socially responsible and environmentally friendly. However, women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds demonstrate a resentment towards price-reduced shopping and evaluate it negatively. We argue that these different attitudes reflect relative perceptions of agency and control, which the data suggest are connected to the propensity for food waste and a worsening of the squander cycle.

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Who’s responsible for food waste? Consumers, retailers and the food waste discourse coalition in the United Kingdom

Journal of Consumer Culture ◽

10.1177/1469540518773801 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 146954051877380 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Daniel Welch ◽

Joanne Swaffield ◽

David Evans

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Food Waste ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Discourse Coalition

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The Problem of Food Waste in Different Types of Households on the Example of the Residents of Poland and Polish People Residing in the United Kingdom – Pilot Study

Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW w Warszawie - Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego ◽

10.22630/prs.2018.18.3.86 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18(33) (3) ◽

pp. 282-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Magdalena Skotnicka ◽

Kaja Karwowska ◽

Maria Śmiechowska

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Food Waste ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Polish People ◽

Different Types ◽

New Ideas ◽

The Uk ◽

The Given ◽

Waste Food

The objective of this study was comparing the scale of food waste depending on different types of households among Poles living in Poland and in the UK. The research was conducted in the group of 622 persons, whereas 345 persons lived in Poland and 277 were residing in the UK for minimum 2 years, however not longer than 10 years. The respondents were differentiated depending on the type of the household in which they lived: 1-person, 2-person, 3-person, 4-person and more. More than the half of the respondents declared that they had happened to throw away food, whereas these are the “British” Poles who waste food most and who are comprised in 1- and 2-person households. A significant dependence was observed in both studied groups, the more numerous the household was the lesser amount of food was wasted. The mostly wasted food included bread, yoghurts, sausage, fruit and vegetables, regardless of the number of persons in the given household or of the place of residence. Due to the fact that the rate of food waste is so high, it is necessary to find a way to implement new ideas and interventions which would limit the food waste in the households.

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Food Waste Disposal Units and their possible impact on sewer rat populations in the United Kingdom

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2013.022 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 202-214 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

D. Channon ◽

S. Calderon ◽

L. Groves ◽

F. Torrance

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Waste Disposal ◽

Food Waste ◽

Food Resource ◽

Food Groups ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Food Particles ◽

Undigested Food ◽

Potential Food ◽

Selection Of

Sewer Rats (Rattus norvegicus) are opportunist occupiers of parts of underground sewerage networks. Their occupation in part depends upon their ability to scavenge food particles from faecal matter in the sewer flow. Food Waste Disposal Units, also called Garbage Grinders or Waste Macerators, are relatively uncommon in the United Kingdom (UK) but may become more common as pressure is put on other methods of waste disposal. Since these units put undigested food into the sewer network, some assessment needed to be made on any potential impacts on the sewer rodent population. This is important since policy relating to the acceptance of waste disposal units (WDUs) was based upon outputs. A selection of WDUs were acquired and a series of standardised tests were performed on a variety of food groups to assess whether the output of these units would represent a potential food resource for rats in sewers. These results are presented graphically in the text, and show that a large proportion of the output would be available to rats.

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