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Australia is one of the highest food waste generating countries in the world per head of population with over 7 ….3 million tonnes of food waste generated in Australia in 2008.Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising and environmentally … that the small AD plant could generate 39kWh from around 589 tonnes of food waste annually. The study also forecast the bio …
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Food waste has become a topic of national and international concern, and an assortment of responses have developed …. Identifying the formal and informal tools available to regulate food waste is a critical step in devising adequate solutions …. Using the taxonomy developed by Lawrence Lessig, this article describes how food waste is currently being regulated through …
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Problem Definition: We study the impact of grocery-store density on the food waste generated at stores and households …. Relevance: Food waste is a major contributor to carbon emissions (as big as road transport). Identifying and influencing market … conditions that can decrease food waste is thus important to combat global warming.Methodology: We build and calibrate a stylized …
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Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …
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This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations … between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food …-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the state of Mississippi over 2007-2012. Since food scraps comprise the …
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The present study explores the influence of workaholism on consumer food waste using an extended version of the theory … performed using IBM SPSS and the results showed that the influence of workaholism on consumer food waste is multifaceted …. Workaholism has no influence on the predictors of intention to reduce food waste such as food waste attitudes, perceived …
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