Hi all,
We're looking at launching a CBSM Food Waste Prevention campaign here in Calgary, Alberta and are seeking information on successful campaigns and benefit/barrier research that's been done on this topic. Also of interest to us in both which groups are the greatest generators in terms of food waste and which groups may be the easiest to influence in terms of behaviour change to reduce food waste. We're well aware of Metro Vancouver's work on this topic today and wondered if anyone else out there had valuable insights to share.
Much appreciated!
Heather Hendrie
Heather Hendrie
Canada
Barriers & Benefits in Food Waste Prevention
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The West Coast Climate and Materials Management Forum included CBSM approaches to look at wasted food http://westcoastclimateforum.com/food
The work is detailed in a report (listed under resources on the food link). http://westcoastclimateforum.com/sites/westcoastclimateforum/files/related_documents/Food_Too_Good_To_Waste_Background_Research_Report.pdf
There is a brief summary as well http://westcoastclimateforum.com/sites/westcoastclimateforum/files/related_documents/pilotdescriptions.pdf
john davis
mojave desert and mountain recycling authority
United States
www.urecycle.org
Hi Heather,
I know you are already familiar with the Vancouver and WRAP programs.
I have been collecting resources on such campaigns and resources. I absolutely love what Sainsbury has done: https://www.sainsburysfoodrescue.co.uk/
Love Food Hate Waste, although now paused, has some good information: http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/content/about-food-waste-1
One thing that I have been giving a lot of thought to is that we have to be careful not to approach this issue solely from a waste management perspective. Research on food marketing is a source. For instance, a colleague with many years of experience researching for the food industry, is that loss of skills is an issue. Her example is people don't know how to make stock anymore so they throw food out before it is used up.
It seems that teaching kitchen/cooking/food storage skills may be a way to remove some barriers to reducing food waste.
Ken Donnelly
President
Beyond Attitude Consulting Inc.
Canada
www.beyondattitude.com
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Have you checked out the US EPA's Food Too Good to Waste Campaign? It uses lots of CBSM elements and the implementation report goes into quite a bit of detail on influencing factors.
Main website:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-02/documents/implementation_guide_and_toolkit_ftgtw_2_1_2016_pubnumberadded508_alldocuments.pdf
Report:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-02/documents/implementation_guide_and_toolkit_ftgtw_2_1_2016_pubnumberadded508_alldocuments.pdf
There's also an academic paper published from the University of Guelph on household behaviours related to food waste:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25445261
Lastly, a review of various successful food waste reduction campaigns in this toolkit by the BC Ministry of Environment:
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/waste-management/recycling/organics/resources/food_waste_reduction_toolkit.pdf
Hope these help!
Belinda Li
Project Engineer
Tetra Tech
Canada