Do meal boxes reduce food waste from households?

Household food waste is determined by a complex set of routinized behaviors, and disruption these routines may allow for decrease in this vast amount waste. The current study examines such household routines: the meal box. potential boxes to diminish different types investigated first time, across countries. After providing framework comparing effects meals on waste, we subsequently examine subscription-based supply (i.e., boxes) total as well waste: preparation, cooking, plate Our dataset contains 8747 observations from 955 households six Results Bayesian multilevel hurdle-lognormal model with random intercept show that, overall, reduce comparison traditionally cooked dinners (38% reduction). Meal especially lower occurrence pan-and-pot that wasted cooking waste), also preparation yet lead higher both compared traditional meals. This shows how differences between affect something has received little prior research attention. Furthermore, whereas most focused overall our illustrates distinguishing can provide important new insights.