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Quantities, environmental footprints and beliefs associated with household food waste in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ilija DjekicIgor TomasevicFrancisco J. BarbaJosé M. LorenzoV DjordjevicSabina OpertaNermina Djulančićsubject
attitudes regarding food wasteEnvironmental EngineeringBosnian030309 nutrition & dieteticsfood packaging waste010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciencesGlobal WarmingAgricultural economics03 medical and health sciencesWaste Managementfood waste behaviourPlastic packaging0105 earth and related environmental sciencesBosnia and Herzegovina0303 health sciencesFood wasteGlobal warmingdigestive oral and skin physiologyPollutionlanguage.human_languageRefuse DisposalFood packagingFood wasteFoodquality function deployment for environmentlanguageBusinessPlasticsdescription
The objectives of this research were to identify the quantities and global warming, acidification and eutrophication potentials associated with household food waste in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In parallel, this study investigated perceptions related to food waste and using the quality function deployment for environment model, correlated reasons for discarding food waste and beliefs associated with food waste. Based on this study, it is estimated that around 2.8 kg of food waste is disposed of by the average household every week. Global warming, acidification and eutrophication potentials associated with household food waste are, on average, 3.49 kg CO2e/week, 2.42 g SO2e/week and 8.70 g PO4e/week, respectively. Also, Bosnian households discard over 80 different pieces of food packaging waste weekly, where plastic packaging is the most dominant packing type. The highest ranked reason for discarding food is linked to plate leftovers. In general, Bosnian citizens feel guilty when they waste food.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | Waste managementresearch : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA |