Drivers and barriers to food waste reduction
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Identifying motivations and barriers to minimising household food waste
The amount of food discarded by UK households is substantial and, to a large extent, avoidable. Furthermore, such food waste has serious environmental consequences. If household food waste reduction initiatives are to be successful they will need to be informed by people’s motivations and barriers to minimising household food waste. This paper reports a qualitative study of the thoughts, feelin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Food Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0007-070X
DOI: 10.1108/bfj-12-2017-0726