Household food waste trending upwards in the United States: Insights from a National Tracking Survey
Date
2023-06-08
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Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Abstract
Three successive administrations have supported the United States' 2015 goal to reduce food waste. Households waste more food than other supply chain segments, however, few data sources are available to track US households' progress toward this goal. We provide insights from the first four waves of a novel national survey designed to track such waste. We find a 280% year-over-year increase in self-reported waste between early 2021 and early 2022, which militates against national goal achievement. We find households wasted more food during weeks they dined out and that sample households dined out significantly more in 2022 than in 2021.
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This article was originally published in Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association . The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.59. © 2023 The Authors. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
Keywords
COVID-19, food waste, household, survey
Citation
Li, Ran, Shu, Yiheng, Bender, Kathryn E., and Roe, Brian E.. 2023. “ Household Food Waste Trending Upwards in the United States: Insights from a National Tracking Survey.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. 2: 306–317. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.59