Increasing landfill and environmental costs are driving municipalities to search for effective policies to change household food waste disposal, balancing competing attributes such as effectiveness, fairness and feasibility. In order to better understand households' policy perspectives, we conducted an online survey with 1520 South Australians regarding four different food waste policies, namely: 1) frequency-based pricing for bin collection; 2) penalties for bin misuse; 3) changing bin collection timing; and 4) extension and education. A structural equation modelling approach was used to model overall policy preference, based on perceived policy attributes and household socio-demographics. Results highlighted that respondents' rated economic incentives (pricing and penalties) as the most effective in changing food waste behaviour, but rank these policies low in feasibility or acceptability. Conversely, education and information campaigns were rated as the lowest in effectively changing behaviour, but the most acceptable and fairest policy overall. Overall, respondents from households producing less food waste were more favourable towards introducing economic incentive food waste policies.

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探讨南澳大利亚州家庭对各种食物浪费政策的看法


不断增加的垃圾填埋和环境成本正在推动市政当局寻找有效的政策来改变家庭食物垃圾的处理方式，平衡有效性、公平性和可行性等相互竞争的属性。为了更好地了解家庭的政策观点，我们对 1520 名南澳大利亚人进行了一项在线调查，涉及四种不同的食物浪费政策，即：1） 基于频率的垃圾桶收集定价;2） 对垃圾箱滥用的处罚;3） 更改垃圾桶收集时间;4） 推广和教育。根据感知的政策属性和家庭社会人口统计数据，使用结构方程建模方法对总体政策偏好进行建模。结果显示，受访者认为经济激励措施（定价和处罚）在改变食物浪费行为方面最有效，但在可行性或可接受性方面将这些政策评为较低。相反，教育和信息运动在有效改变行为方面被评为最低，但总体上是最可接受和最公平的政策。总体而言，来自食物浪费较少的家庭的受访者更倾向于引入经济激励性食物浪费政策。