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    Quantification of goods purchases and waste generation at the level of individual households

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    Authors
    Harder, R.
    Kalmykova, Y.
    Morrison, Gregory
    Feng, F.
    Mangold, M.
    Dahlén, L.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Harder, R. and Kalmykova, Y. and Morrison, G. and Feng, F. and Mangold, M. and Dahlén, L. 2014. Quantification of goods purchases and waste generation at the level of individual households. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18 (2): pp. 227-241.
    Source Title
    Journal of Industrial Ecology
    DOI
    10.1111/jiec.12111
    ISSN
    1088-1980
    School
    Sustainability Policy Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38290
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Quantifying differences in resource use and waste generation between individual households and exploring the reasons for the variations observed implies the need for disaggregated data on household activities and related physical flows. The collection of disaggregated data for water use, gas use, electricity use, and mobility has been reported in the literature and is normally achieved through sensors and computational algorithms. This study focuses on collecting disaggregated data for goods consumption and related waste generation at the level of individual households. To this end, two data collection approaches were devised and evaluated: (1) triangulating shopping receipt analysis and waste component analysis and (2) tracking goods consumption and waste generation using a smartphone. A case study on two households demonstrated that it is possible to collect quantitative data on goods consumption and related waste generation on a per unit basis for individual households. The study suggested that the type of data collected can be relevant in a number of different research contexts: eco-feedback; user-centered research; living-lab research; and life cycle impacts of household consumption. The approaches presented in this study are most applicable in the context of user-centered or living-lab research. For the other contexts, alternative data sources (e.g., retailers and producers) may be better suited to data collection on larger samples, though at a lesser level of detail, compared with the two data collection approaches devised and evaluated in this study. © 2014 by Yale University.

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