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May 26, 2015 · Results show that consumers’ motivation to avoid food waste, their management skills of food provisioning and food handling and their trade-offs between priorities have an extensive influence on their food waste behaviors.
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Rescuing Food from the Organics Waste Stream to Feed the...
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Household - Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and...
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Leftovers - Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and...
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To successfully reduce consumer-related food waste, it is...
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Retail - Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential...
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Literature Review - Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and...
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Oct 9, 2024 · Research indicates that households are a significant source of food waste (Attiq et al., 2021; Jungowska et al., 2021; Khalid et al., 2019), particularly during the consumption phase (Attiq et al., 2021; Laurenti et al., 2017).
- 1 Kitchen Food Waste
- 2 Client Food Waste
- 2.2 Food Waste at Workplace Level: An Exploratory Study in Company Canteens
- 2.3—Kitchen Food Waste: An Interview with The Chefs
Considering the managers’ and chefs’ perspective, according to the literature, these are the behaviours that significantly reduce food waste: careful ordering and menu planning (Sustainable Restaurant Association 2010), avoiding spoilage waste by monitoring used-by-dates and storage conditions (WRAP 2013), offering different portion sizes according...
Considering the clients’ perspective, the main behaviour in order to reduce waste would be not to leave food scraps on the plate. One of the biggest factors that influences clients’ leftovers is serving too big portions of food (WRAP 2013; Sustainable Restaurant Association 2010). Therefore, going back to the manager’s perspective, it is fundamenta...
To the best of our knowledge, until now, no study has focused on the main factors that influence food waste within the workplace. Also from a practical standpoint, the main initiatives against food waste in this sector are concentrated on food waste redistribution, and not on the prevention of it. Thus, the main aim of this researchFootnote 2was to...
Concerning the away from home phase, we have seen that chefs, responsible for food preparation and cooking in the kitchen, play an important role on food waste phenomenon. However, up to now, a specific study does not exist that seeks to understand how the chefs’ category is moving to reduce the phenomenon in the kitchen and in the restaurant room....
- Ludovica Principato
- ludovica.principato@uniroma3.it
- 2018
Oct 1, 2023 · Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors indirectly influence behavioural intention by their effects on attitudes, self-efficacy, and environmental concerns. Education, income, dietary patterns, and body mass index directly impacted food waste reduction behaviour.
Research has shown that a range of factors influence food waste at the consumer level, including consumer characteristics, shopping and consumption behavior, product attributes, labeling, packaging, and marketing strategies (e.g. Jorissen et al., 2015; McCarthy and Liu; 2017; Quested et al., 2013; Sinvennoinen et al., 2014; Visschers et al ...
- Yan Heng, Lisa House
- 2021
Nov 1, 2022 · Drivers and barriers of consumer food waste behavior. Factors influencing food waste behavior at household level are diverse and interrelated (Fami et al., 2019; Parizeau et al., 2015) and may be classified as drivers, barriers, both or as useful to consider when designing interventions.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the attitudes of green consumers towards food waste, reasons for wasting edible food and acceptance of policy actions that could help address the food...
