Food waste in China

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Project aims

The project aims were

  • To systematically design, develop and test ways to increase residential separation of food waste, focussing on behaviour change and waste management techniques
  • To design frameworks which bridge effective practice to related systems of academic knowledge

Project findings and impact

The project has shown that typical governmental implementation of policy by informing residents is ineffective for food waste recycling, and much more complex and subtle behavioural change concepts need to be invoked.

A draft framework of 13 domains of behaviour determinants has been developed which allows practitioners to more effectively plan successful programs. This is being tested by an NGO in one part of Shanghai, China and will start to be piloted more widely in one district shortly.

Research team

Professor Marie Harder

Firooz Firoozmand

Research students

Dai Yuancan

Li Changjun

Xu Dongyin

Lin Ziyin

Huang Yanyan

Wang Xiao

Blaine Johnson

Micheil Gordon

Output

Dai Y.C., Gordon, M.P.R., Ye J.Y., Xu D.Y., Lin Z.Y., Robinson N.K.L., Woodard R., Harder M.K. 2015. Why doorstepping can increase household waste recycling. Resources, Conservation and Recycling (in print).

Wenfang Huanga, Jie Wanga, Xingyi Daia, Mingran Lia, Marie K. Harder 2014. More than financial investment is needed: food waste recycling pilots in Shanghai, China

Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 67, 15, Pages 107–116

Partners

Fudan University – Department of Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor Linda Steg – University of Groningen

environment.fudan.edu.cn/en/Show.aspx?info_lb=264&flag=225&info_id=318