Transport Motorization and Household Food Waste in Rural China: Direct-Weighing Evidence of a Nonlinear Association
Fangzhou Ran, Dan Zhang, Lingen Wang · 2026
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Fangzhou Ran, Dan Zhang, and Lingen Wang weigh how motorized food shopping links to household food waste in rural China. The team tracked 204 households in Shandong for three days in 2017, weighing edible food thrown away. Each household got a motor score based on how it fetched each kind of food.
Waste rose as motor scores climbed from low levels, then tended to fall at the top end. Storage waste showed the bend most clearly, while plate waste rose in a straight line. Motor scores foretold whether a household wasted at all, more than how much it wasted. Shopping more often sharpened the link, and plant-based staples drove the pattern more than perishable foods.
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| CREATOR | Fangzhou Ran, Dan Zhang, Lingen Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57737 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |