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# Summary
A lot Large volumes of food
is are wasted in Dutch households. Households are responsible for 38 percent of the entire waste along the food supply chain. Several studies found how the amount of food waste in households is influenced by the
the way people organize their household life around the practice of eating as well as their abilities to cope with everyday life contingencies. In this master's thesis I qualitatively compare and contrast how two non-representative groups of Dutch households organize their household life around the practice of eating and how they cope with everyday life contingencies that disrupt normal provisioning routines. One group is characterized by households that voluntarily participated in the public engagement campaign "100-100-100" that aimed at a general reduction of residual household waste and improved sorting performance. The other group is characterized by "ordinary" households in the sense that I selected them without any particular selection criteria
in mind. other than to investigate daily life. Drawing upon the results of a content analysis of
170 203 open-ended text responses, I found that 100-100-100 households: (1) have acquired
effective simple routines to
creatively use reuse leftover products
in time; (2) make extensive use of the freezer to shortly after their occurrence or preserve
leftovers; (3) them over the long-term for future use; (2) are characterized by people with a "maker culture" and a positive attitude towards experimentation and do-it-yourself;
(4) (3) remain affected by everyday life contingencies in the form of well-intended food gifts and donations which, however, are not part of
their system existing routines and thus create a difficulty to be utilized. To the contrary, the "ordinary" households in my study: (a) were in various ways affected by everyday life contingencies that disrupted existing practices around eating and led to
food waste; the unintended over-provision of food; (b)
showed expressed widely shared emotions of anger, sadness, dislike and discomfort associated with wasting food; (c) were in many situations aware of the problem and able to articulate effective solutions
to prevent food waste but failed to implement these in their daily household life.
These results let me conclude that, in order to effectively combat Some contingencies of everyday life, however, unavoidably disrupt household
food waste, people require more than tips and information how to deal with food, but need active support life and
guidance in go beyond the
creation scope of
new habits and household routines. Practicing these routines could begin in school the household. At this point, food waste becomes a wider cultural issue that needs to
teach students subjects such as "creative cooking", "fridge labeling & screening", and "food-sharing", thereby enabling them be addressed at all places of provision, ranging from retailers to
deal with the
almost unavoidable situations personal workplace. A public debate is necessary to negotiate the responsible utilization of food
over-provisioning aside the background of a perceived over-abundance and
unforeseen disruptions availability of food. Household food waste is unlikely to
everyday life. be reduced significantly if the wider problem of affluence and over-consumption is not solved.