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Food waste and domestic refrigeration: a visceral and material approach
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In this paper, we offer an embodied and material exploration of food waste arising from practices of food refrigeration and disposal. Inspired by geographers working with a visceral approach and calls within the discipline to evaluate the productive agency of materials, our framing brings materiality and embodiment to the fore in accounting for refrigerated food items recategorised and discarded as waste. Drawing on research conducted with 28 households in Wollongong (Australia), our analysis of refrigerating and ridding food orients around three emergent activities: placing, rotating, and assessing. Each section provides illustration of different ways in which affective social relations and subjectivities co-constitute embodied understandings and materialities of foods-becoming-waste. To conclude, we articulate the implications of a visceral and material approach for rethinking and addressing food waste.
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“Some consumers also associate food waste with emotions of 'disgust ' (Radzyminska et al., 2016;Waitt and Phillips, 2016;Watson and Meah, 2012), 'hate' (Waitt and Phillips, 2016), 'frustration' or 'annoyance' (Graham-Rowe et al., 2014), and 'anxiety' (Evans, 2011a;Graham-Rowe et al., 2014).”
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“During processes of ordering and disposal, food items can be re-examined, re-experienced, and re-valued, e.g. to be used for a meal, replaced within the place of storage, or moved out of it (Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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“Systematically storing and categorizing food products (e.g.systematic stacking of newer and older foods, or according to frequency of use) in combination with periodic re-ordering can lower food waste generation (Farr-Wharton et al., 2014;Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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“This unpredictability of eating patterns, driven by unexpected dinner invitations or spontaneously spending time with friends, leads to foods remaining uneaten and, in turn, wasted (Evans, 2012;Ganglbauer et al., 2013;Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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“Yet, even though reusing leftovers is appreciated for its time-, labour-, and money-saving qualities (Cappellini, 2009;Waitt and Phillips, 2016), its realization often faces considerable barriers.”
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“Here, concerns about food safety tend to outweigh others, such as wasting food (Graham-Rowe et al., 2014;Meah, 2014;Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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“In line with that, more attention has recently been paid to the notion of 'procrastination' (Blichfeldt et al., 2015;Evans, 2012b;Waitt and Phillips, 2016), i.e. postponing the unpleasant experience of throwing away leftovers until they are sufficiently spoiled and finally must be discarded (Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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“When stored, leftovers are often misplaced, forgotten and/or stored for too long in the fridge and therefore expire more frequently (Blichfeldt et al., 2015;Farr-Wharton et al., 2014;Waitt and Phillips, 2016).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Waitt, G., & Phillips, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Phillips, Catherine
- ORCID
- Waitt, Gordon
- Venue
- Social & Cultural Geography
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-08-24
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 359-379
- ISSN
- 1464-9365 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1197
- OpenAlex
- W2229120834
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 11.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social & Cultural Geography (publishedVersion)
- Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Keywords
- food waste, domestic refrigeration, materiality, embodiment, household food practices, food disposal, affect
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