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An exploratory study of food waste management practices in the UK grocery retail sector

机译：对英国杂货零售业中食物垃圾管理实践的探索性研究

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The grocery retail sector produces substantial amounts of food waste. Despite the growing public recognition of its negative socio-economic and environmental implications, the issue of food waste in supermarkets has been under-researched. In addition to a small number of studies, the focus has been on the quantification and characterisation of food waste streams in grocery retail. Little attention has been drawn to managerial attitudes and approaches to food waste mitigation. Managerial research is critical to aid in understanding how the issue of food waste is tackled on the ground. This paper plugs this knowledge gap by investigating how managers of major UK grocery retailers address the problem of food waste in their day-to-day operations. It adopts content analysis of corporate materials and a qualitative method of primary data collection and analysis to explore managerial attitudes and approaches to food waste mitigation in supermarkets of the South East Dorset conurbation (UK). The study demonstrates that, although the problem of food waste is recognised by UK grocery retailers, it is not seen as being of critical importance. In mitigation terms, while food waste recycling and price reductions are mainstream, food donations are ad-hoc and largely occur at managerial discretion. Poor consumer awareness, imperfect regulation, inflexible corporate polices and limited control over suppliers hamper more active involvement in food waste mitigation. Based on findings, policy-making and managerial recommendations on how to optimise food waste management practices in the UK grocery retail sector are revealed. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
机译：杂货零售业产生大量的食物垃圾。尽管公众日益认识到其对社会经济和环境的负面影响，但对超​​市食品浪费的问题仍在研究中。除了少数研究以外，重点还放在食品杂货零售中食物垃圾流的量化和表征上。很少有人关注减少食物浪费的管理态度和方法。管理研究对于帮助理解如何在当地解决食物浪费问题至关重要。本文通过调查英国主要杂货零售商的经理如何解决日常运营中的食物浪费问题来填补这一知识鸿沟。它采用公司资料的内容分析和定性的原始数据收集与分析方法，探索了东南多塞特郡城市（英国）的超市中减少食物垃圾的管理态度和方法。该研究表明，尽管英国食品杂货零售商已经认识到食物浪费的问题，但它并不被视为至关重要。从缓解的角度来看，虽然餐厨垃圾的回收利用和降价是主流，但餐厨捐赠是临时性的，很大程度上取决于管理者的判断。消费者意识不佳，监管不完善，公司政策僵化以及对供应商的控制有限，阻碍了人们更积极地参与减少食物垃圾。根据调查结果，揭示了有关如何优化英国食品杂货零售部门中食物垃圾管理实践的决策和管理建议。 （C）2017 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。

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