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Beyond the Throwaway Society: Ordinary Domestic Practice and a Sociological Approach to Household Food Waste
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This article offers a sociological analysis of household food waste and its starting point is a critique of perspectives in which volumes of waste generation are used to infer the presence of a throwaway society. Drawing on broadly ethnographic examples, the analysis illustrates some of the ways in which the passage of ‘food’ into ‘waste’ arises as a consequence of the ways in which domestic practices are socially and materially organized. Specifically, attention is paid to: 1) routines of household food provisioning and the contingencies of everyday life; 2) the social relations manifest in the enduring convention of the family meal and; 3) the socio-temporal context of food practices. Taken together it is suggested that contemporary sociological approaches to home consumption, material culture and everyday life can usefully engage with public and policy concerns about the origins and consequences of food waste.
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“in terms of wasting food it has been found to be negative, with consumers feeling bad or guilty about wasting food (Evans, 2012;Watson and Meah, 2012).”
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“Despite their generally negative attitude toward food waste, consumers often pursue goals that can inhibit their intention to reduce food waste.”
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“Most studies dealing with food waste show that consumers feel bad about wasting food (Evans, 2012; Watson and Meah, 2012) and are concerned when they throw food away.”
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“At the purchase stage consumers often rely on food shopping routines (Maubach, Hoek, & McCreanor, 2009) and admit to regularly buying more food than needed (Evans, 2012) or food products they never use (Wansink, Brasel, & Amjad, 2000), thereby increasing food waste.”
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“It is associated with offering an abundance of fresh food and a variety that usually leads to more food waste [15,18,34,43].”
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“…over the last 15 years in many areas of consumption studies, including water and energy use within households, everyday mobility or eating/food disposal practices (for example Delormier, Frohlich, & Potvin, 2009; Evans, 2012; Gram-Hanssen, 2010; Ryghaug & Toftaker, 2014; Shove, 2003, 2007).”
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“Previous research on thrift and reuse has questioned whether it ought to be characterised as a sustainable practice, as it is more clearly linked with economising (Evans, 2011b; Gregson et al., 2007; Pepper et al., 2009).”
BackgroundInfluentialIntroduction: A Framework for Managing Food Waste
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“Secondly, the societal perspective to food waste reduction has drawn from sociology and criticised some of the basic assumptions involved in the individual perspective (Evans 2012a; Southerton and Yates 2015).”
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BackgroundResultInfluentialThe effectiveness of advice and actions in reducing food waste
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“Anita van Dyke, ‘The net sum game – saving money on food’ Zero waste advocates value ‘thrifty’ consumption practices (Evans, 2011): spending money on produce and products is not positioned as bad or trivial; rather, it is positioned as significant for reducing environmental damage.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Evans, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Evans, David
- ORCID
- Evans, David
- Venue
- Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-10-27
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41-56
- ISSN
- 0038-0385 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8684
- OpenAlex
- W2029183606
- Cited by
- 569
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 55 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 37 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 22.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Keywords
- household food waste, throwaway society, household practices, food provisioning, family meals, everyday life, household consumption, material culture, waste generation
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