Study: Food waste costs not appetizing to many
Check out this recent article in Western News. It presents an overview of our recent Household Food Waste Survey paper, published in the Canadian Geographer (see below for link to… Read more >
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Food for naught: Using the theory of planned behaviour to better understand household food wasting behaviour
Check out the full (academic) results of the household food waste study conducted in London, Ontario in 2017. It is available as a free download at The Canadian Geographer https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cag.12519
Developing and Testing a Novel Intervention to Reduce Household Food Waste
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5896 Households are major contributors to food waste. Lately we have been hearing noises about “don’t blame the consumer” which is wrong-headed and misses the point. It is patronizing to… Read more >
Want to Reduce Your Food Waste?
Spent some time on London, Ontario’s AM980 with Mike Stubbs talking all things (household food waste). Post Phd I find myself reducing things to its simplest points. Reducing food waste… Read more >
A few thoughts on food waste from a future leader
I had the opportunity to bring family friend (and grade nine student) Laine to Western University, to check out my food waste research and some other fun stuff, for “Take… Read more >
Developing and Testing a Novel Intervention to Reduce Household Food Waste
My thesis defense is upcoming 16 November 2018 at Western University and you are invited van der Werf thesis defense presentation poster 211018 Full abstract is below: The amount of food… Read more >
CTV London- Field to Forks – You don’t have to waste food.
Hear and see what I had to say about how we can reduce the amount of food that becomes waste on CTV London’s Field to Forks. https://london.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1501140 There is so… Read more >
Thanksgiving and Food Waste Reduction- The CBC interview
Our bellies are full and we probably feel like napping… Listen as I go over some of the details of my household food waste research. Over and above wasting money,… Read more >
Reducing Your Family’s Food Waste: It’s Easier than You’d Think!
Guest Blog Written by Mercedes Cant Mercedes provides invaluable help with @allfoodisfood and the food is food blog. Picture this: dinner is over, your kid ate half their meal (vegetables… Read more >
Like Taking Food Away from a Landfill…
Food and the Circular Economy I regularly walk past a pan-handling man on my way to lunch. Exposing my own biases, he seems a little to well-dressed to ask… Read more >