Wasted Food: U.S. Consumers' Reported Awareness, Attitudes, and Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: The U.S. wastes 31 to 40% of its post-harvest food supply, with a substantial portion of this waste occurring at the consumer level. Globally, interventions to address wasted food have proliferated, but efforts are in their infancy in the U.S. To inform these efforts and provide baseline data to track change, we performed a survey of U.S. consumer awareness, attitudes and behaviors related to wasted food. The survey was administered online to members of a nationally representative panel (N=1010), and post-survey weights were applied. The survey found widespread (self-reported) awareness of wasted food as an issue, efforts to reduce it, and knowledge about how to do so, plus moderately frequent performance of waste-reducing behaviors. Three-quarters of respondents said they discard less foo

SUBMITTER: Neff RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4465675 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature