Avoiding food waste by Romanian consumers: The importance of planning and shopping routines

Stefan, Violeta; Herpen, Erica van; Tudoran, Ana Alina; Lähteenmäki, Liisa

doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.11.001

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“…Consumers' food waste behaviors are directly related to planning and shopping routines [50], having or lacking an overview of stocks, having or lacking knowledge about whether food can still be used and situational influences (e.g., specific purchase or consumption contexts; [51]). A diary study in Finland identified that gender, household composition, belief in packaging and perception of the "value of money" at purchase influence food waste [52], while it was mainly young, male and single consumers in research in Portugal [53] that wasted more food.…”

Section: Consumer Behavior Research Regarding Food Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

Aschemann‐Witzel

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Abstract:In the past decade, food waste has received increased attention on both academic and societal levels. As a cause of negative economic, environmental and social effects, food waste is considered to be one of the sustainability issues that needs to be addressed. In developed countries, consumers are one of the biggest sources of food waste. To successfully reduce consumer-related food waste, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the factors influencing food waste-related consumer perceptions and behaviors. The present paper presents the results of a literature review and expert interviews on factors causing consumer-related food waste in households and supply chains. 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. We identify actions that governments, societal stakeholders and retailers can undertake to reduce consumer-related food waste, highlighting that synergistic actions between all parties are most promising. Further research should focus on exploring specific food waste contexts and interactions more in-depth. Experiments and interventions in particular can contribute to a shift from analysis to solutions. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 6458

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Section: Consumer Behavior Research Regarding Food Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

Aschemann‐Witzel

Hooge

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“…It has previously always been introduced to bridge the attitude-behaviour gap [25]. Up to now, the model of TPB has been applied to explore individual and/or household behaviours, such as food waste reduction [26][27][28] and waste recycling [1,12,29], which manifests its effectiveness in analysing and predicting the household waste separation behaviours.…”

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Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

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Due to the increasing waste generation over the years in China, there is an urgent need to addressing this major problem by implementing effective household waste separation programs. Although past studies have tried to explain the waste behaviour from social and psychological motivations, there is little understanding as to the impact of individual moral obligation and past experience on forming waste separating intention. The aim of this study is to investigate key determinants influencing household waste separation intention and behaviour. Based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model, we designed a survey questionnaire by taking account of determinants including residents' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, moral obligation, past behaviour, and demographic factors, with the prediction of household waste separation behaviour in mind. After obtaining 628 valid questionnaires from households in the city of Hangzhou, the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of each construct. The results indicate that subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, past behaviour and intention significantly predict household waste separation behaviour, with past behaviour being the most significant construct to predict individuals' intention and behaviour. Additional analysis on the moderating effect of different kinds of people in terms of their genders, ages, income levels and perceived policy effectiveness, to further evoke household waste separation behaviours is also discussed. The findings suggest insightful future policies that can focus on residents' habit formation by providing the convenient location of waste separation and collection facilities, encouraging market-driven recycling programs and traders, promoting community campaigns and education which help residents to form favourable habits for protecting the environment.

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“…A wide variety of psychological factors, such as attitude, perceived behavior control, and subjective norms, have been identified as influential in household waste recycling behavior. Furthermore, in recent years, there has been increasing awareness towards household KW, especially towards how to reduce household KW at the source in developed countries [35][36][37][38][39][40]. However, few researchers have considered the KW separately in developing countries, or the difference between recyclable (e.g., paper, aluminum, plastic, glass, cardboard, and batteries) and KW, and all have treated the entire waste as a whole in their studies.…”

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Model of Chinese Household Kitchen Waste Separation Behavior: A Case Study in Beijing City

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High participation rates by the public in authority projects are key in increasing resident recycling levels. Understanding waste separation behavior is crucial to achieving sustainable waste management within such household-based schemes. To identify the driving forces behind the seldom-discussed kitchen garbage separation behavior, five psychological factors, namely, attitude, perceived behavior control, subjective norms, moral norms, and responsibility denial, are established. Our data originate from a social study of Beijing citizens conducted in July 2013 (n = 362). Through structural equation modeling, we find that moral norms are consistently the most important predictor of household kitchen waste (KW) separation behavior. Subjective norms have a larger effect on such behavior than responsibility denial. Data analysis shows that perceived behavior control contributes significantly and independently to the explanation of such behavior. By contrast, attitude towards KW separation is found to be significantly negatively correlated with separation behavior. In conclusion, the model with direct and indirect effects of psychological factors explains 50.3% of the variance in household KW source separation behavior. Implications of the results for the promotion of household KW separation programs are discussed.

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Avoiding food waste by Romanian consumers: The importance of planning and shopping routines

Cited by 551 publications

References 21 publications

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Model of Chinese Household Kitchen Waste Separation Behavior: A Case Study in Beijing City

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