How neighbourhood food environments and a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) waste program impact household foodwaste disposal in the city of Toronto
| Autor: | Jason A. Gilliland, Kristian Larsen, Paul van der Werf, Jamie A. Seabrook |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Agricultural economics 03 medical and health sciences Monetary value GE1-350 Economic impact analysis Neighbourhood (mathematics) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Food geography waste characterization study 030505 public health Environmental effects of industries and plants Neighbourhood food environments Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Food waste digestive oral and skin physiology Biodegradable waste Environmental sciences Waste characterization studyPay-as-you-throw (PAYT) Pay as you throw food waste food geography neighbourhood food environments Business 0305 other medical science Garbage pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) |
| Zdroj: | Paediatrics Publications Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 17 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7016, p 7016 (2020) |
| Popis: | Household food waste has negative, and largely unnecessary, environmental, social and economic impacts. A better understanding of current household food waste disposal is needed to help develop and implement effective interventions to reduce food wasting. A four-season waste characterization study was undertaken with 200 single-family households across eight neighbourhoods in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The City of Toronto provides residents with a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) waste program that includes a choice of four garbage cart sizes (Small [S], Medium [M], Large [L], Extra Large [XL]), with increasing annual user fees ($18.00&ndash $411.00 CAD), as well as a green cart (organic waste) and blue cart (recycling). On average, each household disposed 4.22 kg/week of total food waste, 69.90% of which was disposed in the green cart, and disposal increased significantly (p = 0.03) by garbage cart size to L but not XL garbage carts. Of this total, 61.78% consisted of avoidable food waste, annually valued at $630.00&ndash $847.00 CAD/household. Toronto&rsquo s PAYT waste program has been effective at diverting food waste into the green cart but not at reducing its generation. Higher median incomes were positively correlated, while higher neighbourhood dwelling and population density were negatively correlated, with total and avoidable food waste disposal. Regression analyses explained 40&ndash 67% of the variance in total avoidable food waste disposal. Higher supermarket density and distance to healthier food outlets were associated with more, while dwelling density was related to less, total and avoidable food waste disposal. Distance to fast food restaurants and less healthy food outlet density were both negatively associated with avoidable food waste disposal in the garbage and green cart, respectively. Avoidable food waste reduction interventions could include increasing garbage cart fees, weight-based PAYT, or messaging to households on the monetary value of avoidable food waste, and working with food retailers to improve how households shop for their food. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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