influencing behaviour: the doggy boxes pilot and ism
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Influencing behaviour: The Doggy boxes pilot and ISM. Ylva Haglund Partnerships Project Manager Consumer Food Waste Prevention. The Doggy boxes pilot and ISM. Zero Waste Scotland The Doggy boxes pilot ISM – key outcomes and benefits. Zero Waste Scotland. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Influencing behaviour: The Doggy boxes pilot and ISMYlva HaglundPartnerships Project Manager Consumer Food Waste Prevention
The Doggy boxes pilot and ISM• Zero Waste Scotland • The Doggy boxes pilot• ISM – key outcomes and
benefits
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The Doggy Boxes pilotContext• Part of 10 Greener
behaviours• Building on London
initiative• Household focus to
date• 53,500 tonnes food
waste/ year
The Doggy Boxes pilotContext• Costing the industry
£64 million a year• CO2 equivalent
emissions reduction by 150,000 tonnes
• Waste (Scotland) Regulations
• 74% in favour of being offered a ‘doggy bag’
The Doggy Boxes pilotAims• Increased use of
doggy boxes by Scottish consumers when eating out
• Reduction in food waste, and associated CO2 emissions, generated from plate waste in participating Scottish restaurants
• Up to 15 partners• Covering a variety of
restaurant formats and customer demographics
• If viable = future roll-out
ISM - benefits
• Consider all the factors involved• Identify barriers to behaviour
change • Generate new ideas• Informing project design• Format for involving external
experts
Components of the motivational system
Infrastructure
INDIVIDUAL
Values, Beliefs, AttitudesEmotionsAgencySkills
Costs & Benefits
Habit
Introducing ISM: Individual Factors
Weighing up perceived benefits vs
costs. Irrational rather than rational.
Feelings, ‘Hot’ Evaluations
Sense of Personal Control, ‘Self
Efficacy’/confidenceCompetences inc.‘Know How’ and
‘Know What’ Past Behaviour, Routine
Practices
ISM – key outcomes
INDIVIDUAL• Costs & benefits: Decisions of
what to do with the food (‘will the food be used?’, ‘am I going straight home?’ will determine take-up)
• Emotions: Eating out is an escape from normality
ISM – key outcomes
INDIVIDUAL• Skills: Health & Safety
considerations; using up leftovers• Skills: Skill of restaurant staff to
promote doggy boxes to customers
SOCIAL
MATERIAL
Norms
Roles & Identity
Opinion Leaders
Networks & Relationshi
ps
Meanings
InfrastructureObjects Technologies
Institutions
Rules & Regulatio
ns
Time & Schedules
Tastes
Introducing ISM: Social FactorsPersonae /
Repertoires;Sense of Self (&
Other)Sense of others’ conduct – observing
others & of their approval of our
behaviours
Preferences to signal ‘distinction’ and
belonging to different groups
Mechanisms influencing
group conduct – formal & informal
Culturally constructed
understandings
/’frames’(e.g. smoking
now vs in 1920s)
Connections, social
networks, social capital
Influencers, Authorities, Celebrities
ISM – key outcomes
SOCIAL• Institutions: Restaurants making
doggy boxes part of customer experience
• Roles & Identities: Who you are eating out with influencing behaviour
ISM – key outcomes
SOCIAL• Meanings: Re-framing doggy
boxes as something desirable, ‘another meal’, not food waste
• Different contexts - different meanings
• Cultural factors - ‘Mr Manners’
MATERIAL
Infrastructure ObjectsTechnologie
s
Rules & Regulatio
ns
Time & Schedules
Introducing ISM: Material Factors
‘Hard’ and ‘soft’
infrastructure as boundaries
Interaction with users,
generate and spread new behaviours
Things involved in practices, but can also ‘act back’
Formal vs implicit
Finite resource, also
institutionally set,
ISM – key outcomes
MATERIAL• Rules & Regulations: Food
Standard Agency advice• Objects: Design of box / bags;
impact of possible displacement of waste from the restaurant to household
Ideas to take forward
• Name of initiative - name as potential barrier
• Language is central - positive messages at all times
• Further advice / recipes about treatment of food, what to do once home
www.zerowastescotland.org.ukylva.haglund@zerowastescotland.org.uk