Food waste has become a major issue, adding to environmental degradation, economic impoverishment and social tensions around the world. This article examines what is currently known in the literature about why food waste occurs at the household level. After reviewing what is known about the relevant...
Australian households are throwing out more than $5 billion worth of food each year, with over 40% of household food wasted. This non-consumed food constitutes a waste of resources and energy that needlessly contribute to Australia's ecological and carbon footprints. To further complicate matters,...
Increasing landfill and environmental costs are driving municipalities to search for effective policies to change household food waste disposal, balancing competing attributes such as effectiveness, fairness and feasibility. In order to better understand households' policy perspectives, we conducted an online...
Hosts should also avoid the tendency to "over-cater" and waste food -- Australians waste nearly 10 billion Australian dollars food annually, with the average household throwing away 14 percent of food, or about 1,050 Australian dollars each, said Bartone, citing the 2017 RaboDirect Financial H...
There has to be someone at the household who tells the ABS canvassers the name(s) in the first place. This is legally the only way they can then go on and threaten you with fines. Otherwise they can only write their survey/census letters "to the resident" or "to the householder". An...
Using a panel of Australian States, we estimate how changes in household wealth affect consumption expenditure. Both housing and stock market wealth have a... M Kohler,N Dvornak - 《Economic Record》 被引量: 498发表: 2007年 The water footprint of food waste: case study of fresh mango in...
Box 2: Comparison of words used in the Brazilian and Australian dietary guidelines to describe food, culture, household economics and nature. Food—How Food—Why Search terms that describe how people eat food: cereals, meats, fruit, vegetables, dairy, soy, low fat/reduced fat, lean, sugar, ...
Ling said that the team was expecting a higher concentration near urban centers because most of the filaments were produced by household washing machines. "The dominance and ubiquity of microplastic filaments appears due to their low weight and greater potential for long-distance oceanic transportation...
Household medical waste disposal policy in Israel. Israel J Health Policy Res. 2016;5:48. Article Google Scholar Vollmer G. Disposal of pharmaceutical waste in households - a European survey. In: Kummerer K, Hemple M, editors. Green and sustainable pharmacy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Freiburg: ...
I recently read that the appliances found in today's average household do the work of fifty slaves. So perhaps it was the Industrial Revolution, and not a positive development in the public conscience, that put an end to slavery in the United States. Aussie Taryn East adds, "Convict labour...