Drivers of divergent industry and consumer food waste behaviors: The case of reclosable and resealable packaging

Journal of Cleaner Production, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 412, С. 137417 - 137417

Опубликована: Май 8, 2023

Optimizing packaging to align with consumers' food management needs can improve packaging's potential reduce household waste, important for a sustainable system. This paper provides actionable insights support the food/beverage–packaging industry, policymakers, and researchers better understand factors impeding industry implementation of aligned consumer flow-on effects on waste. To facilitate understanding, consumer-industry grounded model is presented based in Australian context, developed through qualitative research using Gioia method examine reclosable/resealable packaging, storage, The results indicate that divergent priorities consumers impede waste reduction. Industry concerns business viability mean prioritizing features sell products, hence are secondary. Consumer framed by individual task goals managing storage availability supporting resources, including appropriate packaging. Suggestions help include increased industry–consumer communication validating product-packaging consumers.

Язык: Английский

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Package-free products: How to improve pro-environmental buying behaviors among consumers

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 198, С. 122995 - 122995

Опубликована: Ноя. 14, 2023

The packaging of consumer goods is considered a main cause household waste. Worldwide institutions are pressing companies to realize solutions that minimize and comply with sustainable development goals (SDGs). Similarly, emerging EU Directives prompting countries operators cut off the fast-moving goods. offer package-free products – alternatively named bulk represents an effective solution. Applying mixed method approach data collected during after pandemic, this paper explores consumers' propensity for products, identifying potential benefits barriers consumers face when buying products. We find keen buy not conform society but as they perceive it personal contribution environmental protection. However, greater familiarity necessary adopting pro-environmental behavior. Thus, we encourage i) manufacturers develop propose new lines, ii) retailers provide assortment options attract targets, iii) policymakers promote behavior among citizens favoring shopping option.

Язык: Английский

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A Choice Experiment Model for Sustainable Consumer Goods: A Systematic Literature Review and Workflow Design

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(17), С. 13183 - 13183

Опубликована: Сен. 1, 2023

Although various methodological biases have been shown, the choice experiment (CE) literature has confirmed relevance of sustainability in consumers’ purchase choices. Analysing 186 case studies through Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, this study defines state-of-the-art future perspectives CE approach, allowing us—for first time—to evaluate a single all variables to be considered setting up questionnaire, with focus on selection attributes levels, maximising reliability result, minimising potential method biases. This paper standardised workflow expand refine perspective that can potentially drive cross-cutting CEs every consumer good by investigating accuracy characteristics driving willingness pay (WTP) premium price greener goods. Most analysed article concern food products (92%), around half (51%) sustainability-related aspects, frequently described generic terms. The results show how defining an adequate number type levels characterising target product is crucial bias-reduced study. These need concrete familiar, using labels essential enhance informed choice, being far-reaching concept multifaceted definitions. Moreover, choosing neutral product, correct sample size, selecting balanced representative group respondents, right analysis model also minimise bias.

Язык: Английский

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The emergence of plastic-free grocery shopping: Understanding opportunities for practice transformation

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 349, С. 119290 - 119290

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2023

Despite consumer concern for sustainability, avoiding plastic packaging, particularly in food shopping, is difficult due to its pervasiveness and usefulness. Yet achieving changes behaviour an important part of environmental management approaches towards a circular economy reduction. This research explores how everyday shopping practices might adapt evolve become more sustainable through consumers avoiding, reducing, or replacing packaging their grocery shopping. qualitative research, based on eighteen semi-structured interviews with sustainably-oriented consumers, finds that plastic-free are challenging even committed practitioners. However, we illuminate four mechanisms representing 'bright spots' (i.e., points optimism) offer specific opportunities management. We define these as destabilisation, envisioning, emotional connection adaptation. Destabilisation envisioning help recruitment practitioners adaptation support practitioner loyalty commitment. Further, reflexivity habituated sustainable-orientation supports practice recruitment, stabilisation transition. discuss the implications our findings 'behaviour change', focusing role policymakers, social marketers, retailers, manufacturers fostering competitive, stable

Язык: Английский

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Institutional logics and organizational green transformation: Evidence from the agricultural industry in emerging economies

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 370, С. 122932 - 122932

Опубликована: Окт. 19, 2024

Язык: Английский

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