Successful long-term programs for urban residential food waste sorting are very rare,
despite the established urgent need for them in cities for waste reduction, pollution reduction
and circular resource economy reasons. This study meets recent calls to bridge policy
makers and academics, and calls for more thorough analysis of operational work in terms of
behavioral determinants, to move the fields on. It takes a key operational element of a
recently reported successful food waste sorting program—manning of the new bins by …