HOUSEHOLD FOOD WASTAGE IN NORTH MACEDONIA

• Published in: Poljoprivreda i šumarstvo Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 125 - 135
• Main Authors: BOGEVSKA, Zvezda, BERJAN, Sinisa, CAPONE, Roberto, DEBS, Philipp, EL BILALI, Hamid, BOTTALICO, Francesco, DAVITKOVSKA, Margarita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Titograd University of Montenegro, Biotechnical Faculty 30.06.2020
• Subjects: Agricultural management; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Anaerobic processes; Biodegradability; Biodegradable wastes; Biodegradation; Consumption; Descriptive labeling; Expenditures; Food; Food processing; Food programs; Food waste; Households; Humanitarianism; Organic wastes; Oxygen; Paper board; Polls & surveys; Questionnaires; Waste management; United Kingdom > UK; Republic of North Macedonia; United States > US
• ISSN: 0554-5579; 1800-9492
• DOI: 10.17707/AgricultForest.66.2.12

According to the law on waste management ("Official Gazette" no. 68/2004, 71/2004, 107/2007, 102/2008, 143/2008, 124/2010, 51/2011, 123/2012, 147/2013, 163/2013, 51/2015, 146/2015, 156/2015, 192/2015 and 39/2016) biodegradable waste is any waste which can be digested in anaerobic (absence of oxygen) or aerobic (with oxygen) decomposition processes such as food waste and garden waste, paper and paperboard. According to the National Plan for Waste Management, it is estimated that the amount of biodegradable organic waste is about 150,000 t per year. In 2011 was established "FOOD FOR ALL - Food Bank of Macedonia" which is a nonprofit, charity and humanitarian organization that collects excess food, food with tight expiration date, i.e. before the end of use - mainly agricultural, agro-industrial and commercial products. The present paper is based on the results of a voluntary survey in North Macedonia using a questionnaire that was adapted to the Mediterranean context from previous questionnaires and studies on food waste (Last Minute Market, 2014). [...]a similar methodology was used in household food wastage surveys in other Mediterranean (Elmenofi et al., 2015; Charbel et al., 2016; Sassi et al., 2016; Ali Arous et al., 2017) and Balkan (Beijan et al., 2019; Preka et al., 2020) countries.