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Understanding Household Food Waste: Insights from Wasted Food Listening Sessions in the DC Area

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posted on 2024-05-17, 14:28 authored by Ella Miller, Raya Rukab

This project delves into the attitudes and behaviors of diverse households in the D.C. area regarding food waste through innovative Wasted Food Listening Sessions. These sessions explored beliefs, origins, household practices, and potential solutions for minimizing household food waste. Through these listening sessions and the identification of major themes, the research team explored potential avenues and incentives for tailoring strategies by household type to reduce waste.

These listening sessions served to inform the team’s strategy to effectively plan and implement household food waste reduction programs (or initiatives).

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SRS RN: Multiscale RECIPES (Resilient, Equitable, and Circular Innovations with Partnership and Education Synergies) for Sustainable Food Systems

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Food-Fueled

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Food-Fueled is an undergraduate research journal centered around food-related topics as an extension of American University’s RECIPES project. Funded by the National Science Foundation, RECIPES brings together over 40 researchers working at 15 institutions in order to advance the science needed to make our wasteful food system more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. Food-Fueled aims to publish works on food-related issues ranging from policy to food science, to personal narratives about the influence of food, nature, and agriculture. This work was supported by NSF Grant # 2115405 SRS RN: Multiscale RECIPES (Resilient, Equitable, and Circular Innovations with Partnership and Education Synergies) for Sustainable Food Systems. Findings and conclusions reported within Food-Fueled are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. This article can also be found at the following website: https://edspace.american.edu/foodfueled/issues/volume-i/understanding-household-food-waste-insights-from-wasted-food-listening-sessions-in-the-dc-area/ All journal content can be found at the following website: https://edspace.american.edu/foodfueled/

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1

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e00009

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    Food wasteHousehold

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