Food waste and recycling habits

Please help Bristol Waste by completing this short survey about your habits around food waste recycling. We’d like to know about your habits before the current exceptional circumstances, so please think back to the beginning of this year when answering the questions below.

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* 1. Do you know that you can recycle food waste at the kerbside in Bristol?

Yes

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* 2. Which of these statements best describe you:

I recycle everything that can be recycled

I recycle a lot but not everything that can be recycled

I recycle everything but food waste

I sometimes recycle

I’d like to recycle but am not sure what I can recycle

I do not recycle

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* 3. Do you regularly get rid of leftover and/or inedible food? If yes, how often?

Daily

2-3 times a week

Weekly

I never have leftover, uneaten or inedible food

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* 4. What is the most common food item(s) that you throw away?

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* 5. How do you dispose of your food waste?

Black wheelie bin

Brown food waste caddy/bin

Depending on the items, a mixture of black wheelie bin and food waste caddy/bin

I compost my food waste

Other (please specify)

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* 6. If you don’t currently recycle food, what is the main reason?

Don’t have room for caddies

Live in a flat and the service is not available

The caddies smell or are unhygienic

Don’t have time to do it

Haven’t got a caddy

Didn’t know I could

I do recycle/compost food

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Roughly what proportion of the food that you throw away is in unopened packaging (e.g. ready meals, fruit and veg in sealed bags)?

None

Hardly any

A small amount

Around half

A large amount

Most of it

All

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* 8. If you throw packaged food away, what are the main reasons?
Tick all that apply

I bought too much food

Unused or unwanted multi-buy/offer

It is past its ‘best before’ date

It is past its ‘use by’ date

Plans changing (e.g. eating out) and food not eaten

Doesn’t look nice

Mouldy/rotten food

Ruined food – accidents (e.g. fridge/freezer stopped working)

I don’t throw packaged food away

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* 9. When you throw away any other uneaten food (unpackaged), what are the main reasons?
Tick all that apply

I bought too much food

Unused or unwanted multi-buy/offer

It is past its ‘best before’ date

It is past its ‘use by’ date

It is leftover/unwanted food at the end of a meal

Plans changing (e.g. eating out) and food not eaten

Don’t like the taste

Doesn’t look nice

Mouldy/rotten food

Ruined food – cooking problems (e.g. burnt) and accidents (e.g. fridge/freezer stopped working)

It is inedible parts of the food – e.g. peelings, stalks, peels, skin, shells, bones, coffee grounds etc

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* 10. Which of the following, if any, do you do before buying food?
Tick all that apply

Check what food you already have

Plan meals for the days ahead

Make a list

Work out the quantities that you need for different items

None, just buy as and when

Other (please specify)

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* 11. What would help you to reduce the amount of food which goes to waste in your home?
Tick all that apply

Information on storage to preserve food

Equipment that helps prolong the life of food (e.g. potato sacks, storage containers, food savers for cut vegetables)

Information on planning meals

Information on planning food shopping

Information on portion sizes

Information on the costs of food waste

Information on the environmental impact of food waste

Nothing would encourage me to make an effort to throw away less food

I already take steps to reduce my food waste

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Are you aware of Bristol’s Slim My Waste – Feed My Face food waste reduction campaign?

Yes

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* 13. Do you think your food buying, storing, cooking and recycling habits have changed due to Covid-19? If so, please provide more details below:

Yes

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* 14. Please provide any further comments you have about food waste in your home or Bristol:

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* 15. If you would like to receive occasional newsletters from Bristol Waste Community Engagement team please leave your details below:

Name

Email address

Postcode

Food waste and recycling habits

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* 1. Do you know that you can recycle food waste at the kerbside in Bristol?

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* 2. Which of these statements best describe you:

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* 3. Do you regularly get rid of leftover and/or inedible food? If yes, how often?

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* 4. What is the most common food item(s) that you throw away?

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* 5. How do you dispose of your food waste?

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* 6. If you don’t currently recycle food, what is the main reason?

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* 7. Roughly what proportion of the food that you throw away is in unopened packaging (e.g. ready meals, fruit and veg in sealed bags)?

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* 8. If you throw packaged food away, what are the main reasons?Tick all that apply

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* 9. When you throw away any other uneaten food (unpackaged), what are the main reasons?Tick all that apply

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* 10. Which of the following, if any, do you do before buying food?Tick all that apply

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* 11. What would help you to reduce the amount of food which goes to waste in your home?Tick all that apply

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* 12. Are you aware of Bristol’s Slim My Waste – Feed My Face food waste reduction campaign?

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* 13. Do you think your food buying, storing, cooking and recycling habits have changed due to Covid-19? If so, please provide more details below:

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* 14. Please provide any further comments you have about food waste in your home or Bristol:

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* 15. If you would like to receive occasional newsletters from Bristol Waste Community Engagement team please leave your details below:

* 8. If you throw packaged food away, what are the main reasons?
Tick all that apply

* 9. When you throw away any other uneaten food (unpackaged), what are the main reasons?
Tick all that apply

* 10. Which of the following, if any, do you do before buying food?
Tick all that apply

* 11. What would help you to reduce the amount of food which goes to waste in your home?
Tick all that apply