Avoiding food waste by Romanian consumers: The importance of planning and shopping routines

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“At the consumer level, planning, shopping and stockpiling routines are important predictors of waste (Wansink and Deshpand e, 1994;Chandon and Wansink, 2002;Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“While Gustavsson et al. (2011) state that poverty and limited household income make it unacceptable to waste food and Stefan et al. (2013) found that higher household income leads to more waste, Cox and Dowling (2007) found that low-income families tend to waste more food.”

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“In contrast to these findings, however, a study that included planning and shopping routines as additional factors in the model shows that the intention not to waste food does not have a significant effect on reported food waste (Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“and plays an important role in the intention to reduce food waste (Mond ejar-Jim enez et al., 2016;Stancu et al., 2016;Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“Stefan et al. (2013) explain that by the fact that the creation of food waste is not driven by conscious intentions and that food-related household practices (see Section 3.3) seem to be a better indicator for the amount of food wasted.”

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“What could explain the weak role of environmental concerns is a lack of awareness and knowledge about the link between food waste and ecological impacts (Graham-Rowe et al., 2014;Quested et al., 2013;Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“While subjective norms (commonly approved or disapproved behaviours in a culture) seem to have no influence on food waste behaviour per se (Graham-Rowe et al., 2015;Stefan et al., 2013;Visschers et al., 2016)”

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“Also, various psychological approaches increasingly highlight that routinized household practices such as eating, cooking, and planning (see Section 3) play a key role in food waste generation (e.g.Stefan et al., 2013;Stancu et al., 2016;Visschers et al., 2016).”

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“In that sense, Stefan et al. [50] and Thyberg. and Tonjes [19] argued that the higher people's income, the higher eating at a restaurant”

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“Those who regularly eat leftovers produce less food waste (Stancu et al., 2016;Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“All three studies focus on one specific country, Italy; however, the fundamental constructs within our conceptual framework are likely to be valid for many developed societies, as argued in previous research (e.g., Stancu et al., 2016;Stefan et al., 2013).”

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“Finally, poor shopping planning and buying more than is needed (Stefan, van Herper, Tudoran, & Lähteenmäki, 2013) are typical examples of food-related behavioral factors directly increasing food waste.”

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“These findings validate the results obtained in previous research but also, compared to previous studies (Stancu et al., 2016;Stefan et al. 2013), add two more behaviors associated with domestic food preparation and in-store food control during purchasing.”

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“Based on Stefan et al. (2013), we conclude that planning and shopping routines explain most of the variance in food waste, with the latter having the larger influence.”

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“Moreover, Stefan et al. (2013) and Stancu et al. (2016) concur that an important role in reducing food waste was the improvement of meal planning skills.”

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“Stefan et al. (2013) found that providing consumers with practical tools to improve their food planning and shopping routines could reduce waste.”