Quantifying and analysing food waste generated by Indonesian undergraduate students

International Conference on Green Agro-industry and Bioeconomy 2017

农业科学;生物科学;经济学

Mandasari, P.^1

Agribusiness Study Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia^1

关键词: Descriptive statistics;    Environmental consequences;    Food waste;    Indonesians;    Logistic regressions;    Undergraduate students;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/131/1/012058/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/131/1/012058

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Despite the fact that environmental consequences derived from food waste have been widely known, studies on the amount of food waste and its influencing factors have relatively been paid little attention. Addressing this shortage, this paper aimed to quantify monthly avoidable food waste generated by Indonesian undergraduate students and analyse factors influencing the occurrence of avoidable food waste. Based on data from 106 undergraduate students, descriptive statistics and logistic regression were applied in this study. The results indicated that 4,987.5 g of food waste was generated in a month (equal to 59,850 g yearly); or 47.05 g per person monthly (equal to 564.62 g per person per a year). Meanwhile, eating out frequency and gender were found to be significant predictors of food waste occurrence.