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Food Waste and the Shopping and Consumer Behaviour of Czech Households – June/July 2023

In its regular survey the Public Opinion Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, examined the Czech public’s attitudes and opinions on the issue of food waste. More than a half (52%) of the respondents consider food waste to be a big problem, more than two-fifths (42%) think food waste is not right, but there are more urgent problems that need to be solved and only twentieth (5%) of the Czech public does not consider food waste to be a big problem in society.

The most important reason for reducing food waste according to respondents is to save money for their household (75%), while the least important reason is to change society through their behavior (34%).
The majority (55%) of respondents go shopping several times a week, while a quarter (25%) go shopping once a week. 14% of respondents shop every day.

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