Abstract
A questionnaire survey was conducted of young adults aged from 18 to 29 on buying and discarding food materials to investigate their attitudes and awareness to wasting food.
Males living alone tended not-to buy fresh vegetables and fish and prepare their own evening meals. They instead bought highly processed foods, and discarded old vegetables and packaged food without separating the contents from the packaging more often than females. Females living alone bought fresh vegetables and fish in smaller amounts and prepared their evening meals, although they discarded old vegetables more often than females living with the family. However, such females living alone prepared evening meals more frequently tended to discard old vegetables less than others from a cross tabulation analysis. The females made more use of old vegetables had a more appropriate attitude to discarding some foods after the use-by date, and had greater awareness about the disposal of leftover food and small packed foods, and about the use-by date.
