More than half of the Czech public (56%) consider food waste to be a major problem, more than two-fifths (41%) think food waste is not right but there are more urgent issues that need to be solved, and only 2% of Czech citizens do not consider food waste to be a society-wide problem.
Almost two thirds (65%) of citizens declare that the total amount of food wasted by their households does not exceed 10%. A fifth (20%) of respondents lean towards the option that their household throws away more than 10% but less than a quarter of the food. Only 3% of respondents admitted to throwing away more than a quarter but less than half of their food. Conversely, 12% of the public say that their household does not throw away any food.
Of the specific reasons for reducing food waste, respondents mention 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 food away include leftovers in the form of scraps, simply forgetting about food, food going bad or food going past its expiry date.
Just under two-fifths (37%) of people believe that they could avoid throwing away "rather a minority" of the food they waste, while another tenth (10%) say that they cannot avoid throwing away any or almost any of the food they throw away and that they cannot eliminate their food waste. Just under a quarter (24%) of the public believe that about half of the food waste produced could be avoided, while more than a fifth (21%) admit that it is within their power to avoid most of the food waste produced and 6% say they could avoid all or almost all of the food waste their household produces.
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