Social and environmental analysis of food waste abatement via the peer-to-peer sharing economy

Reducing food waste is important. Here the authors investigate whether digitally enabled social networks can efficiently reduce food waste and find that in 19 months, around 91t of food waste were collected by secondary consumers and diverted from disposal.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tamar Makov, Alon Shepon, Jonathan Krones, Clare Gupta, Marian Chertow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14899-5