Food classifications provide an approximate packaging indicator to support monitoring of mismanaged plastic waste.

ABSTRACT: Mismanaged plastic waste undermines environmental quality, aquatic ecosystems and ultimately public health. Mismanaged plastics increasingly originate from urban populations lacking waste collection services. Household expenditure survey analyses have quantified plastic waste generation among these populations, but only for individual products (e.g. bagged or bottled drinking-water), not for the overall packaging profile of households' basket-of-goods. This study aims to evaluate how far the international NOVA classification of foods/beverages and commodity classifications by residents predict plastic food packaging. Via a cross-sectional market surveillance survey, packaging was observed for 502 and 396 transactions at selected retail outlets serving low-income areas of Greater Accra, Gha

SUBMITTER: Dzodzomenyo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11814282 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature