Tennessee Consumer Willingness to Pay for Disposable Dinnerware Molded from Wheat Straw

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• Creators:
  Gill, MacKenzie B ; Jensen, Kimberly L ; Upendram, Sreedhar ; Labbe, Nicole ; English, Burton C ; Lambert, Dayton M ; Jackson, Samuel W ; Menard, Robert J
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Environment and Energy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Consumer preferences
  • Wheat
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Waste management
  • Climate change
  • consumer
  • disposable dinnerware
  • wheat straw
  • ASCENT
• Publication/ Report Number:
  JFDR51.2_2_Jensen
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.305481
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Elsevier
• Abstract:
  Wheat straw, a wheat byproduct, can be used in making disposable dinnerware. This study uses a contingent valuation survey to measure consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for wheat straw dinnerware bowls (WSB). Consumers would pay a premium ($1.33) for a 25-count package of molded WSB over the same size package of conventional bowls. Target markets include those who spend more on disposable dinnerware but also those who have greater concern about reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Recyclability, no plastic, USDA Certified Biobased, and compostability are more important attributes to consumers than no tree cellulose being used in making the disposable dinnerware.
• Content Notes:
  Journal of Food Distribution Research is an open-access journal and published articles are made freely available under licensing that allows them to be read, copied, re-distributed and re-used
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  13-C-AJFE-UTENN-Amd 5
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/54914/dot_54914_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.62 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection ; Federal Aviation Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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