Gamithri Karunasena

Analysing behavioural and socio-demographic factors and practices influencing Australian household food waste

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 07-2021

DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2021.127280

Quantifying the effects of food management routines on household food waste

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2023

DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2023.136230

Generational differences in food management skills and their impact on food waste in households

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2021

DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2021.105890

Segmenting households based on food waste behaviours and waste audit outcomes: Introducing Over Providers, Under Planners and Considerate Planners

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 06-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2022.131589

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours

Publisher: MDPI AG

Date: 15-07-2022

DOI: 10.3390/SU14148699

Abstract: Dealing with the wicked problem of global food waste and loss is a complex and challenging area. In Australia, increased political will has landed the ersion of domestic food waste from landfill squarely at the feet of local government (councils), often requiring significant change to kerbside collections systems. This paper discusses how post-kerbside household food waste treatment systems can encourage pro-environmental behaviours. To achieve this, current food waste literature is examined against kerbside domestic waste collection measurable outcomes ( ersion rates, system uptake and contamination rates). The hypothesis is that specific interventions can establish, or rebuild, community trust, responsibility and pro-environmental behaviours around food waste avoidance and ersion. Two post-kerbside systems—commercial composting and anaerobic digestion—provided the framework. Two themes emerged from the study: (1) the benefits of connecting the community with the interactions of household food waste inputs with post-treatment outputs (compost, soil conditioners, digestates and biogases) and (2) providing engaged communities with pathways for sustainable, pro-environmental actions whilst normalizing correct kerbside food waste recycling for the less engaged (habitual behaviours, knowledge and cooperation). The paper contributes to understanding how councils can connect their communities with the issues of household food waste.

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Postgraduate Institute Of Management

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