Almost half of the Czech public (49%) consider food waste to be a major problem, more than two-fifths (45%) think that food waste is not right, but there are more urgent problems that need to be solved, and only 6% of Czech citizens do not consider food waste to be a society-wide problem.
Almost two thirds (64%) of citizens declare that the total amount of food wasted by their households does not exceed 10%. Less than a fifth (18%) of respondents are inclined to the option that their household throws away more than 10% but less than a quarter of their food. Only 2% of respondents admitted to throwing away more than a quarter but less than half of their food. In contrast, 15% of the public say that their household does not throw away any food.
Of the specific reasons for reducing food waste, respondents cite financial savings for their household and environmental benefits as the most important.
The most common reasons for not consuming food cited by those who do throw some food away include excess food in the form of leftovers, food spoilage and food past its use-by date. Other relatively common reasons are that too much food is wasted (forgotten, cooked too much, bought too much, put too large a portion on the plate) or that an accident occurs during food preparation.
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