Household Food Waste Behavior in Klang Valley, Malaysia, and Its Potential in the Circular Economy
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article "Household Food Waste Behaviour in Klang Valley, Malaysia 2 and their potential in Circular Economy" was reviewed.
Please address the following problems:
1. The abstract needs to be rewritten. Concisely include all your findings.
2. The formulated hypothesis (H1, H2, H3) are not cleared)
3. what is the impact of food waste mass production?
4. Revised the manuscript to eliminate typos and grammatical mistakes.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript “Household Food Waste Behaviour in Klang Valley, Malaysia and their potential in Circular Economy” has an interesting topic, is well organized, and overall reads well.
I have some comments to be addressed by authors.
1. I suggest merging the first and second sentences of the abstract.
2. In lines 37 and 38, it is mentioned “While the main objective of the previous study is to find the solution to daily hunger and 50-70 percent of the objectives are achieved by the previous study, one factor that is normally overlooked is to lessen food waste”. Which previous study? Please more clearly write the sentence.
3. The sentence in lines 86-88 requires a reference.
4. Sentences in lines 94-96 do not seem to be appropriate to be located there.
5. Lines 90-92: “Currently, only a few strays on waste measurement have been examined in food waste that is available at the national level.”. I suggest mentioning some references and examples of available documents.
6. The research gap should be better highlighted.
7. The manuscript should be carefully proofread. The hypotheses also require to be edited.
8. Discussion can be more extended.
9. Section “5. Limitations and Recommendations” can be a sub-section in the conclusion section (this is a suggestion).
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Reviewer 3 Report
Comments and suggestions for Authors
This paper entitled “Household Food Waste Behaviour in Klang Valley, Malaysia and their potential in Circular Economy” authored by Zailin Zainal Ariffin et al studies the factors that lead to food waste behavior at the household level in the Klang Valley area.
The authors find that there is a significant relationship between food waste behavior namely food expenditure and waste reuse, but food waste behavior has a negative relationship with food choice.
The study is very interesting, and the authors use the appropriate methodology and further refer to limitations and recommendations.
I have a minor comment before it can be accepted for publication:
Minor comment
1. Authors should combine the references through the text in one bracket e.g. line 36 [1], [2] should be changed to [1,2]
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Reviewer 4 Report
Please see attached pdf file with my comments
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript can be accepted now.
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Reviewer 4 Report
Thank you for taking the time to consider and reply to the comments/remarks. I would suggest employing an English-proofing service to improve the quality of the written text.
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