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Therefore, including more households from high-rise buildings and diftar scheme might reveal new insights into food wastage ocurrance with regards to housing and waste infrastructure.  However, Furthermore,  yet little work has been done to translate these numbers the Dutch household wastage figures  into the environmental impacts regarding water spoilage, fertile  land use and energy consumption. A CO_2 emissions. The only identifiable  study was  done by Milieu Centraal (2012) that  expressed each kilo of wasted food as 1.3 liter wasted gasoline. %is known on the actual act of food waste spillage. This research aims at filling this gap by addressing the following questions: 

In acknowledgement of the existing shortcomings this research aims at contributing to the following two main questions:  \begin{enumerate}  \item What are the environmental effects of food wastage produced in by  Dutch households? \item How do daily household  practicesof households  affect food waste spillage? %\item Where in the household does food wastage occur?  %\item  %\item What is the difference in effectiveness between individual coaching and the online platform?  \end{enumerate}  % Short elaboration on the research questions. If required, clarify your questions and you can briefly state how you approach the problem theoretically and methodically.  The first question addresses the environmental effects of wasted, thus unutilised, food on unnecessary water and land use, as well as CO_2 emissions resulting from  energy consumption and labour requirements. use.  Providing accurate estimates requires detailed data on the different food categories that have significantly different environmental impats. impats, e.g. meat and vegetables.  The second question aims at contributing to a better understanding of the underlying reasons for food waste ocurrence. It will be investigated what the relationship is between daily, recurring activities of households members and food waste ocurrence. Furthermore, it will be analysed which of these activities have an enforcing (diminishing) influence, e.g. shopping planning behaviour, mode of transportation typically used to go for shopping, etc. Gaining a deeper understanding of households' daily practices is likely to provide further insights that can help contribute to a better understanding under what circumstances food wastage in households occurs, and where it occurs. People have different options to dispose food leftovers which has different implications for the environmental effects and thus  the requirements of the waste collection and treatment infrastructure.