Public attitude to food waste: the case of Lithuania

S. Žičkienė, Ala Kovieriene, Vaiva Griščiūtė
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The purpose of the research is to investigate consumers’ perception concerning food wastage and their awareness of economic, social and environmental costs concerning the issue. The research focused on the concept of food waste in context of consumers’ attitude regarding this problem. Comparative analysis, synthesis and evaluation of scientific literature and legal documents, statistical data collection and analysis was performed together with the results of on-line survey of 500 households representing 1494 inhabitants from all Lithuanian counties. Data was analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS): descriptive statistics, frequencies, crosstabs. Lithuanians discard relatively small amounts of wholesome edible food in comparison with averages for EU 27, but most of them have the limited knowledge of the meaning of “best-before” dates, consumers are strongly influenced by retail promotions, and wasting food for them is primarily associated with a waste of money. State waste management policy is focused on waste sorting, while this research provides the evidence that households are insufficiently informed about economic, social and environmental costs concerning food waste. This underlines the necessity to review the current state policy with emphasis on public education as an important factor in minimizing household food waste. Lithuanians recognize that the consumers are mostly responsible for food waste, but food wasting is treated mainly as financial lost. The added value of this article is the proposal to create information campaigns that will cause a sense of guilt for food squandering.
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公众对食物浪费的态度:立陶宛的案例
研究的目的是调查消费者对食物浪费的看法,以及他们对这个问题的经济、社会和环境成本的认识。研究的重点是食物浪费的概念在消费者对这个问题的态度的背景下。对科学文献和法律文件进行了比较分析、综合和评价,并收集和分析了统计数据,同时对立陶宛各县的500户家庭(代表1494名居民)进行了在线调查。数据分析使用社会科学统计软件包(SPSS):描述性统计,频率,交叉表。与欧盟27国的平均水平相比,立陶宛人丢弃的有益健康的可食用食品相对较少,但他们中的大多数人对"最佳食用日期"的含义了解有限,消费者受到零售促销活动的强烈影响,浪费食物对他们来说主要是浪费金钱。国家废物管理政策侧重于废物分类,而本研究提供的证据表明,家庭对食物浪费的经济、社会和环境成本了解不足。这强调了审查当前国家政策的必要性,强调公共教育是减少家庭食物浪费的一个重要因素。立陶宛人认识到消费者对食物浪费负有主要责任,但食物浪费主要被视为经济损失。这篇文章的附加价值是提议发起一场宣传活动,让人们对浪费食物产生负罪感。
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