Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0990554
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Zeroing in on food waste: Measuring, understanding and reducing food waste. By developing a socio-culturally aware public education and social marketing programme to reduce food waste behaviours, the proposal addresses the national research priority area of an environmentally sustainable Australia. Reducing food waste by just 10% would save ~$530 million worth of wasted expenditure on food and reduce food waste in landfill by ~300,000 tonnes per annum, thereby reducing the costs associated with disposal and the release of harmful methane gases. The methodology refined by this project to understand food waste will provide the basis for efficient and sustainable food waste reduction strategies and provide an approach that can be generalised to other waste streams with strong socio-cultural determinants.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2009
End Date: 12-2013
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $308,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Cultural Studies | Consumption And Everyday Life | Social And Community Psychology | Social And Cultural Anthropology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Processed food products and beverages | Industry costs and structure |
