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Food waste management and green purchasing behaviour among youths in Malaysia


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Mohamed Zain, Izzah Nadhirah and Abdul Rahman, Haliza (2021) Food waste management and green purchasing behaviour among youths in Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11 (15). 61 - 76. ISSN 2222-6990

Abstract

Malaysia still produces an estimated around 37,890 tonnes of waste per day and 16,687 tonnes of it is food waste in 2019. This figure gives the impression that Malaysians are still not trying to reduce waste as higher amount of waste can reflect the quantity purchased by Malaysians. This situation occurs because it has become a habit to purchase items that cannot be recycled or reused without feeling bad for the environment. The aims of this paper are to highlight the issues and strategies in food waste reduction in Malaysia. Secondary data are collected regarding “food waste”, “waste management” and “environment friendly food purchasing” scope matters. There are several categories of food waste in Malaysia, food losses from production in the food supply chain, unavoidable, and avoidable food waste. Food waste does affect the environment through the greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, land occupation footprint and water footprint. The strategies to overcome the problem of food waste disposals in Malaysia are through composting, recycling, and anaerobic digestion treatment. Green purchasing is an influential driver in almost all the beginning movement of sustainability in the supply chain, which also included food processing until the disposal phase.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Institute for Social Science Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i15/10635
Publisher: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
Keywords: Environment friendly food purchasing behaviour; Food waste; Waste management; Sustainability; Consumers
Depositing User: Ms. Nuraida Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2022 08:58
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2022 08:58
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/97375
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