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KMID : 1024520120210070865
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Journal of the Environmental Sciences
2012 Volume.21 No. 7 p.865 ~ p.873
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Effect of Clean Plate Education on Food Wastes Reduction in University Dormitory
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Lee Eun-Kyeong
Kim Deok-Gil
Kim Seung-Woo
Jung Sin-Young
Choi Kwang-Soo
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Abstract
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Clean plate education program was applied to change students' perception on food waste in the dormitory cafeteria of T campus G university that is located in Tongyeong, in which 408 students joined the program. From survey and food waste monitoring, it was found that clean plate education program was effective to change students' perception as well as action. Half students (50.5%) answered that their eating habit changed, and among them 30.1 % students left a little food on the plate and 13.1% students left no food behind. Many students become aware of the seriousness of food waste issue (84.5%), and 44.2% students were trying to reduce leftover. Food waste generation in cafeteria was 341.9, 576.1, 344.3g/capita/day in 2005, 2007 and 2008, respectively. And this shows that food waste generations were much less than national average data except 2007. Therefore we could conclude that clean plate education program was satisfactory to change students' perception on food and to change their action, and it could be an excellent new approach to resolve a social issue caused by food waste. In order to reduce food waste generation at dormitory cafeteria, food taste and diet should be improved and students' eating habits also should be changed. For this, a practical program like clean plate education should be organized.
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KEYWORD
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Clean plate education, Clean plate movement, Food waste, University campus
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