Exploring Fruit and Vegetable Waste in Homeless Shelters that Receive Surplus Donation from a Wholesale Market in Chile
| Autor: | Carolina Fredes, Rodrigo Fernández-Verdejo, María Ignacia Pérez, Francisco José García-Purriños García |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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020209 energy
Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Wholesale market TD194-195 01 natural sciences Nutritious food Renewable energy sources redistribution Toxicology Food surplus food recovery Waste production 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering GE1-350 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Redistribution (cultural anthropology) Environmental sciences Food waste food waste Donation waste management Business food surplus |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 21 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 8835, p 8835 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12218835 |
| Popis: | Redistribution of food surplus helps to prevent waste production and feed hungry people. But this has not been tested in the context of a wholesale market that redistributes fruit and vegetable surplus to homeless shelters. We aimed to compare the amount of fruit and vegetable waste between shelters that received or did not receive a surplus donation in Chile. We also explored possible causes that explained the waste. Five homeless shelters that received donations (HS+DON) and five that did not (HS) were included. For three days, fruit and vegetable waste was disposed into containers for direct quantification. The amount of waste was compared between groups using the Mann&ndash Whitney U test, both in winter and spring. A questionnaire was applied to identify causes of waste. For vegetables, we found no difference in the median (25th percentile&ndash 75th percentile) waste of HS+DON vs. HS (winter: 152 (83&ndash 262) vs. 104 (63&ndash 163) g per person/day, p-value = 0.22 spring: 114 (61&ndash 229) vs. 63 (50&ndash 132) g per person/day, p-value = 0.41). HS had no fruit waste, thus, fruit waste was higher in HS+DON in both seasons (winter: 74 (16&ndash 134) spring: 13 (6&ndash 40) g per person/day). The main reasons explaining waste were excessive donation, looking badly, and smelling moldy. In conclusion, redistribution of fruit and vegetable surplus helped to reduce waste at the wholesale market and to feed homeless shelters&rsquo beneficiaries with nutritious food. But efforts are still required to avoid excessive donation of surplus soon-to-be spoiled. We propose a tailored donation plan to reduce waste to the unavoidable one. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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