Where and when matter: uncovering the hidden influences on household food waste generation rates

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43110/25:43927196

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.emerald.com/bfj/article/127/13/412/1267064/Where-and-when-matter-uncovering-the-hidden" target="_blank" >https://www.emerald.com/bfj/article/127/13/412/1267064/Where-and-when-matter-uncovering-the-hidden</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2024-1271" target="_blank" >10.1108/BFJ-12-2024-1271</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Where and when matter: uncovering the hidden influences on household food waste generation rates

Original language description

Current scholarship on household food waste (HFW) is driven by the desire to uncover ways to reduce its amount. This endeavour is based on a set of assumptions that are rarely explicitly articulated. These include the expectation that HFW originates exclusively in the food purchased in the retail sector, that the type of place in which households are embedded plays a limited or no role in the amount and composition of food waste (FW) and that seasonal variations in the amount of produced HFW are unimportant. This longitudinal, three-year research was based on repeated HFW composition analysis from 900 households located in three types of residential areas in a Czech city and on insights from six focus groups held in the same localities. The paper shows that place and time are key factors in informing data collection and analysis needed for the formulation of policies aimed at meeting the ambitious international FW reduction targets. The paper supports a currently minor strand of literature to argue that the HFW research needs to widen its focus beyond the usual 'household food waste journey'. To increase the accuracy and reliability of the data on the materiality of HFW, the design of future research also needs to replace the one-off data collection with repeated collections that reflect both seasonality and diversity of the types of residential areas.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000092" target="_blank" >TL02000092: Pro-environmental behavior of households and incentives for behavioral change in food waste production</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

British Food Journal

ISSN

0007-070X

e-ISSN

1758-4108

Volume of the periodical

127

Issue of the periodical within the volume

13

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

412-425

UT code for WoS article

001518381200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105009411983