Blaming the consumer – once again: the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households

By David M. Evans. 2011

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Subfields: Food Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Plant Science

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Identifying motivations and barriers to minimising household food waste (2014, background): “More recently, Evans (2011, 2012) carried out a sociological exploration of food practices in 19 households in the UK.”
The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste (2014, background): “Food waste has substantial economic impact (Evans, 2011b; WRAP, 2011; Morrissey & Browne, 2004).”
Household-level dynamics of food waste production and related beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours in Guelph, Ontario. (2015, background): “A research focus on the household unit and individual consumer behaviours has the potential to devolve into ‘‘blam[ing] the consumer’’ (Evans, 2011), and so it is imperative to understand householders’ behaviours in a broader context of systemic factors (e.”
Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices (2016, unknown): “Within Critical Public Health, for example, Evans (2011), Milne (2011) and Meah (2014) have provided empirical studies of food waste and food safety practices, respectively, using these to critique behaviourbased approaches in which associated ‘risks’ are treated as matters of individual consumer…”
Household Food Waste Behavior: Avenues for Future Research (2016, background): “…food-borne illness (Neff, Spiker, and Truant 2015) Good provider identity (Graham-Rowe et al. 2014; Porpino et al. 2015) Domestic food practices (Evans 2011) Low preference losses (Beretta et al. 2013) Freshness preference (Neff et al. 2015) have been explored, the cultural context demands more…”
Can social media be a tool for reducing consumers’ food waste? A behaviour change experiment by a UK retailer (2017, background): “UK households throw away approximately a third of the food they purchase for consumption (Evans, 2011) with the average annual household waste consisting of 17% food waste (Defra, 2015).”
Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action (2015, background): “that consumers do not carelessly waste food [44,45]; rather, it is the socially-determined practices in food and eating and the”
Food waste drivers in Europe, from identification to possible interventions (2016, background): “, because they are attracted by the product marketing, they want to change something in their diet or simply try something new) [104,157,169,171] and when they give in to “temptation” of promotional offers or sales campaigns [12,116,134,147,153,156,169,180].”
Bringing habits and emotions into food waste behaviour (2017, background): “Research on the determinants of food waste has to date been dominated by qualitative research (Evans, 2011b; Graham-Rowe et al., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.06.007 Received 24 March 2017; Received in revised form 11 May 2017; Accepted 5 June 2017 ⁎ Corresponding author at:…”
Food Waste Paradox: Antecedents of Food Disposal in Low-Income Households (2015, background): “Academic studies also lack a deeper understanding of how waste may be a consequence of the ways in which domestic food practices are socially organized (Evans, 2011).”
“Reduce Food Waste, Save Money”: Testing a Novel Intervention to Reduce Household Food Waste (2019, methodology): “…& Comber, 2013); (b) modifying the nature or size of packaging to better preserve what is inside it (Verghese, Lewis, Lockrey, & Williams, 2015); and (c) by using reduced packaging sizes to sell consumers a quantity of food that can be reasonably consumed before it becomes food waste (Evans, 2011).”