Food Waste Prevention Centre - FWAPC, Kornatska 1 C, Zagreb, Croatia.
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Svetosimunska 25, Zagreb, Croatia.
Waste Manag. 2020 Feb 1;102:231-240. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.10.042. Epub 2019 Nov 1.
Every year in the EU alone, almost 90 million tonnes of food is lost. The sectors contributing the most to this amount are households, accounting for 53% of total food waste. Bearing in mind the fact those two-thirds of this amount refers to the occurrence of waste which is theoretically avoidable, the greatest attention should be paid to the generation of food waste in households. In Croatia, there is no data on the quantities of food waste produced, but only estimates on the amount of such waste. The aim of this research paper was to determine the type and amount of household food waste and the differences in production of waste relative to the socio-demographic characteristics of household members. The research was carried out by 115 Croatian households, who self-reported the amount of food waste during seven days. According to the results, on average, 2.57 portions of food waste were reported as the amount of discarded food per household member per day, equivalent to 0.21 kg of food waste mass. In general, the typical Croatian household generates 75 kg of food waste per person on average. The age of respondents positively affected the prevention of waste, while the income level and the number of children under the age of 18 in the household had an adverse impact.
仅在欧盟每年就有近 9000 万吨的食物被浪费。造成这一数量的主要是家庭，占食物浪费总量的 53%。鉴于这其中三分之二的数量指的是理论上可以避免的浪费，因此家庭食物浪费的产生应受到最大关注。克罗地亚没有关于食物浪费产生量的数据，只有关于此类浪费数量的估计。本研究论文的目的是确定家庭食物浪费的类型和数量，以及家庭垃圾产生量与家庭成员社会人口特征之间的差异。该研究由 115 个克罗地亚家庭进行，他们在七天内自行报告了食物浪费的数量。结果显示，平均而言，每个家庭每天每个成员报告有 2.57 份食物垃圾，相当于每人每天丢弃的食物重量为 0.21 公斤。总的来说，典型的克罗地亚家庭平均每人产生 75 公斤的食物垃圾。受访者的年龄对防止浪费有积极影响，而收入水平和家中 18 岁以下儿童的数量则产生了不利影响。
