Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Generating Pro-Environmental Connections: Connecting FOGO Inputs with FOGO Outputs
3.1. Kerbside Collection Systems in Australia (the Inputs)
3.2. Kerbside System Choice
- Lack of investment in community engagement with household food waste management;
- High kerbside bin contamination rates with organics;
- Council and community preference for business as usual and reluctance to implement kerbside system change to divert household food waste from landfill;
- Failure to meet household food waste reduction, avoidance and diversion targets;
- Failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and landfill tonnages.
- Extensive community engagement and cooperative planning utilizing all available avenues;
- Aim to meet or exceed the national food waste strategy targets of reducing food waste by 50% by 2030 [9];
- Significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and leachate [65];
- Extension of landfill life through decreased tonnages and increased avoidance and diversion;
- Contribution to the circular economy: food waste as a resource [64].
3.3. Household Food Waste Processing Systems (the Outputs)
4. Engagement and Empowerment: Generating Pro-Environmental Pathways via FOGO
4.1. FOGO Attitudes and Interventions: Overcoming Avoidance and Extending Responsibility
- The green lidded bin is a ‘comprehensive compost service’ and that it can take all food scraps including meat, bones, dairy etc.;
- The materials are turned into compost;
- Landfills are running out of space [96].
4.2. FOGO Engagement: Combining Theory with Practice
5. Conclusions, Discussion and Future Research: Using Tangibles to Extend Individual Responsibility
- Connecting the community with how inputs affect outputs (i.e., what goes in the organics bin ends up in the compost/digestate);
- Providing explicit pathways for easy contribution to green energy production and greenhouse gas mitigation via recycling of organics (empowerment and cooperation) and establishing the social norms of food waste management (individual responsibilities to group expectations).
Author Contributions
Funding
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Connecting and Communicating | Aim/Rationale |
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With your community | To use inclusive and extensive consultation to pre-empts future issues [124]—face to face is best but time consuming and costly. |
With their values | Connecting with the community’s values is a means of overcoming barriers in understanding and depends most often on connected and tailored communications [125]. |
With key staff and stakeholders | To build in collaborative planning [126] with the aim of standardising knowledge and empowering stakeholders through understanding and involvement. |
With good communicators | To overcoming barriers in understanding across the community. This depends most often on connected and tailored communications [125]. |
Individual health/food/environmental choices | To work holistically and include health related messages. The ‘nudge’ approach is proving effective [102,108,127]. |
The contents of the FOGO bins and their subsequent usage | To extend connections between post-kerbside FOGO treatment in Australia and its environmental connotations [95,96]. |
Creating and Considering | Aim/Rationale |
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Extensive high-level social media engagement | To pre-empt and respond to consumers’ views via household food waste campaigns [50] e.g., ‘trusted voices’ [110], FAQs, have-your-say sites, infrastructure promotions, films and videos. |
Spending time consistently monitoring all stages of the process | Tonnages of household food waste diverted from landfill and contamination rates change over time with reports showing the longer it is in place, the more familiar and efficient it is [55]. |
Early pre-rollout engagement implementing | To increase familiarity, consistently re-enforced with good information [128]. |
The key ‘power players’ | To engage those who can promote the system change and those who will give it ongoing support. |
What is working | To promote local infrastructure to grow knowledge, clarity and capacity around your approach [129] |
Councillors, customer services and council staff | To support and educate public facing roles. These can turn the tide and move the project from success to failure. |
Using a trial first | This is proven to increase community familiarity with FOGO and ease whole of community rollouts. |
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Landells, E.; Naweed, A.; Pearson, D.H.; Karunasena, G.G.; Oakden, S. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8699. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148699
Landells E, Naweed A, Pearson DH, Karunasena GG, Oakden S. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours. Sustainability. 2022; 14(14):8699. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148699
Chicago/Turabian StyleLandells, Esther, Anjum Naweed, David H. Pearson, Gamithri G. Karunasena, and Samuel Oakden. 2022. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours" Sustainability 14, no. 14: 8699. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148699