Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 294-306Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2018.1428834
Keywords
Consumer food waste; product service system; sustainable consumption; stakeholders
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK [EP/K030957/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K030957/1, EP/P008771/1, EP/I033351/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/P008771/1, EP/K030957/1, EP/I033351/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Literature analysing reasons for Consumer Food Waste (CFW) revealed that it cannot be reduced to consumer behaviour alone. In fact, CFW should not be conceptualised as the problem but as a symptom of a food system that oversupplies and encourages consumerism. This research focuses on preventing CFW in the United Kingdom (UK), as a representative of a developed country, by improving the traditional food provisioning system to better integrate production and consumption. To achieve this, five stages are identified to design a sustainable product service system (PSS) capable of supporting consumers to better manage their food operations: (1) strategic analysis of current food provisioning system, (2) exploring system level innovations leading to minimisation of CFW, (3) refinement and selection of PSS, (4) designing the most promising PSS from an environmental, economic and social perspective, and (5) evaluating designed PSS. This paper considers the first of these stages, reviews reasons for and existing solutions to CFW, and provides a strategic analysis of the current food provisioning system to identify characteristics that could be exploited within a new PSS. Initial investigations reveal applicability of PSS concept to the food provisioning system and potential for reduction of CFW if core causes are addressed.
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