Beyond the Bin: Dissecting Factors and Barriers in Food Waste Sorting Among Czech Households

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43210/23:43923983

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.wasteforum.cz/cisla/WF_3_2023.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.wasteforum.cz/cisla/WF_3_2023.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond the Bin: Dissecting Factors and Barriers in Food Waste Sorting Among Czech Households

Original language description

The study is based on primary questionnaire research, conducted using the CAWI method (N = 1332), and it determines the factors influencing the sorting of food waste (FW) in Czech households. By employing exploratory factor analysis, fourteen key areas were identified, including the availability of sorting options, handling of FW, and financial motivations. Although 86% of respondents expressed a willingness to sort FW, nearly half of them declared that they had no options how to sort it. Significant barriers remain with the lack of containers and the complexity of the FW sorting process. This study contributes to a better understanding of consumer behaviour in the field of waste sorting and provides insight into this issue for future policymaker decisions. The results show that after the introduction of the FW sorting system by policymakers, it is further important to ensure the availability of containers for sorting and to motivate households for this waste sorting, by both raising environmental awareness and providing financial motivations, and minimising the barriers associated with FW sorting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Waste Forum

ISSN

1804-0195

e-ISSN

1804-0195

Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

183-194

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85175064109