Zeroing in on food waste: Measuring, understanding and reducing food waste

通过制定一项具有社会文化意识的公众教育和社会营销方案，以减少浪费食物的行为，该提案涉及澳大利亚环境可持续发展的国家研究优先领域。减少10%的食物垃圾将节省约5.3亿美元的食物浪费支出，每年减少约30万吨的垃圾填埋场，从而减少与处置和释放有害甲烷气体相关的成本。该项目改进的了解食物浪费的方法将为有效和可持续的食物浪费减少战略提供基础，并提供一种可以推广到具有强大社会文化决定因素的其他废物流的方法。

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.