Analysis of the Impact of Plastic Packaging on Food Waste Behavior in UK Households

Abstract

This research is designed to analyse the impact of plastic packaging for food products on households’ food waste behaviour in the UK. The photo-elicitation approach is employed to achieve this research goal, and the sample consists of fifteen respondents in the Wales region and in particular in Bangor. As a result, this research finds that most of the respondents are in favour of a significant impact of food packaging on food waste, and most of them indicate that plastic food packaging can contribute relatively more to food waste than other types of food packaging. On the other hand, there also exist a few respondents who consider that there is no relationship between food packaging and food waste.