A new study has found that short -term fare lodging across the United States may waste more than $ 2.3 billion food every year.
According to the study, on a daily basis, the remaining $ 12 value of the takeout and restaurant survivedwaste management,
This amount is equal to 5.1 percent of one night fare fee – according to research, similar to tax rates applied to housing in many places.
Brian Roe, the lead author of a professor of agricultural economics at Ohio State University, said, “So people are basically paying an additional accommodation through the money they spend on food that they never eat, while they live in AirBNB.”
To draw their conclusions, Roe and his colleagues conducted an online survey of 502 American adults, who reported on their most recent visit to AirBNB, VRBO or other short -term fare during the last one year.
Almost all the respondents said that their stays were for holiday objectives, while only 3 percent reported to travel a business.
Combining statistical analysis with relevant national data, researchers estimated an annual estimate of up to $ 2.3 billion spent on food, which was not consumed until the end of these holidays.
Passengers paid approximately $ 231 per night for lodging, generating $ 12 in waste food per night: $ 7 in grocery items and $ 5 in items prepared elsewhere according to the study.
About 80 percent of the passengers reported to eat at least one meal per day in the fare, and 6.3 percent said they ate for every meal. Normally spent on grocery items added to an average of up to $ 34 per day, showing data.
When the children were present on rent, there was a large amount of unnamed food left at the end of the living, the authors found.
About half of the respondents said that they throw more food while traveling at home, while only 21 percent reported more and more food wastage at home.
According to the study, production and pantry staples top the most left -left grocery charts.
Guests reported that about 46 percent of the hosts gave them an opportunity to recycle and more than 20 percent instructed what to do with food.
Although currently food waste can be deposited on short -term rental, most of the passengers expressed their desire to get information from their fare hosts and gave information about donating unnamed food.
“There is some interest to try to reduce their footprints among the passengers,” Roe saw.
Constructing that interest, researchers suggested that local and regional short -term fare hosts could help individual hosts to include information about fertilizer and donation options.
Peer-to-peer platforms such as AirbnB or VRBO can also consider integrating as additional criteria as an additional criteria, along with the publicly identified tags of “Sustainable Hosts”, as well as the authors said.
“The information book of a host can imagine it as a simple addition to the booklet – perhaps a very notable implementation,” said Roe.
He said, “If the number of $ 2 billion on it increased to $ 1.5 billion, it is half a billion dollars for a wasted food every year.”
