Envisioning a Future Without Food Waste and Food Poverty 2015
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-820-9_18
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A social perspective on food waste: to what extent consumers are aware of their own food waste

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“…Notwithstanding, simplifying it to mere tips on food management could be counterproductive. The results of our survey and a previous one in the same region (Díaz-Ruiz et al, 2015) revealed high self-evaluations in purchasing discipline, for example, making a shopping list, organizing the fridge or developing cooking skills. Indeed, changing prevention behaviours is not as easy as influencing recycling behaviours, as demonstrated in different studies to date.…”
Section: Policy Implicationssupporting
confidence: 60%
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“…Notwithstanding, simplifying it to mere tips on food management could be counterproductive. The results of our survey and a previous one in the same region (Díaz-Ruiz et al, 2015) revealed high self-evaluations in purchasing discipline, for example, making a shopping list, organizing the fridge or developing cooking skills. Indeed, changing prevention behaviours is not as easy as influencing recycling behaviours, as demonstrated in different studies to date.…”
Section: Policy Implicationssupporting
confidence: 60%
“…First, Barr, (2007), in his seminal paper, already indicated that both variables are very similar in people's mind. Second, previous research carried out in Catalonia (Díaz-Ruiz et al, 2015) corroborated this idea. Third, a discriminant analysis validated it.…”
Section: Research Implicationsmentioning
confidence: 62%
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“…Consequently, consumers tend to think that they are merely discarding inedible parts of their food and that most of their food waste is unavoidable (Richter, 2017). Generally, consumers are unaware of the fact that they are the main generators of food waste within the food system and the common perception is that agriculture and retailers are mainly responsible for food waste (Díaz-Ruiz et al, 2015). Moreover, Brook Lyndhurst et al (2007) found that consumers predominantly consider food waste as an economic problem rather than a social or environmental one.…”
Section: Information Knowledge and Food Wastementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, most of the studies have used different food waste conceptual frameworks and scopes, if any, which makes it difficult to make comparisons between them or even with other studies abroad. In the metropolitan region of Barcelona, there has been no specific study on food waste, apart from studies addressed to better understand consumers' behavior in relation to food waste [74,75].…”
Section: The Case Study: the Metropolitan Region Of Barcelonamentioning
confidence: 99%