Designing Circular Waste Management Strategies: The Case of Organic Waste in Amsterdam

Viva, Ludovica; Ciulli, Francesca; Kolk, Ans; Rothenberg, Gadi

doi:10.1002/adsu.202000023

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“…According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), one‐third of all food resources worldwide were wasted in 2011 [54,55] . A recent study in our group for the city of Amsterdam shows how the major source of organic waste is households, even more than food industries, services, and production combined [56] . Even facing this dramatic datum, food waste continues, particularly in developed countries.…”

Section: The Environmental Impact Of Plasticsmentioning

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“…[54,55] A recent study in our group for the city of Amsterdam shows how the major source of organic waste is households, even more than food industries, services, and production combined. [56] Even facing this dramatic datum, food waste continues, particularly in developed countries. In fact, EU citizens produce approximately 70 kg of waste per capita [36] (albeit that the leading waste management system in the EU is energy recovery from waste [57][58][59][60] ).…”

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Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts

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Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health. The associated carbon emissions and persistency of plastics challenge the fragile balance of many ecosystems. One solution is using biodegradable plastics. Ideally, such plastics are easily assimilated by microorganisms and disappear from our environment. This can help reduce the problems of climate change, microplastics, and littering. However, biodegradable plastics are still only a tiny portion of the global plastics market and require further efforts in research and commercialization. Here, a critical overview of the state of the art of biodegradable plastics is given. Using a material flow analysis, the challenges of the plastic market are highlighted, and with it the large market potential of biodegradable plastics. The environmental and socioeconomic impact of plastics, government policies, standards and certifications, physico-chemical properties, and analytical techniques are covered. The Review concludes with a personal outlook on the future of bioplastics, based on our own experience with their development and commercialization.

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“…Khan and Bajracharya [11] write that the geographic boundaries of councils can "become barriers to tackling wider issues", and councils who do not take a holistic approach risk creating gaps in coverage, inefficient management, public discontent and the exacerbation of environmental issues. When policymakers take a broader view, they can see how a system is contextually embedded, leading to more effective strategy design and improvements in sectors such as waste management [12].…”

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“…As explored in the literature, systems thinking is an analytical mindset that integrates the idea that shifting to a more encompassing perspective allows one to see that the "whole is more than the sum of its parts" [12].…”

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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management: Examining Australia’s Experience with Inter-municipal Cooperative Partnerships

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2022

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Effective governance and inter-organisational cooperation is key to progressing Australia’s journey toward the circular economy. At the local governance level, inter-municipal cooperative partnerships in waste management (‘IMC-WM’ partnerships) are a widespread phenomenon throughout Australia, and the world. This paper aims to analyse waste management in Australia through a governance perspective and inaugurate the scholarship on understanding the complex interactions between actors and institutions designed for regional cooperation. To this end, we explore the partnerships’ institutional characteristics, joint activity outputs and the internal relations observed between participants. Data were collected through a nationwide census survey of Australia’s IMC–WM partnerships and a short online questionnaire to the municipal policy actors (councillors, executives and council officers) who participate in them. The investigation observes that a diversity of innovative institutional responses has emerged in Australia. However, within these partnerships, a culture of competitiveness antithetical to sustainability is also detected. Despite competitive behaviours, the partnerships perform very well in cultivating goodwill, trust, reciprocity and other social capital values among their participants—as well as a strong appreciation of the complexity of municipal solid waste (MSW) policy and the virtues of regional cooperation. This dissonance in attitudes and engagement dynamics, it is suggested, can be explained by considering the cultural-cognitive influence of broader neoliberalist paradigms. As the first scholarly investigation into Australia’s experience with regional cooperation in waste management, this research reveals the macro-level structures and ascendent micro-institutional dynamics shaping the phenomenon.

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“…These aggregated flows are visualized in a 2.5D Sankey diagram overlaid on a landscape sheet. A study by Viva et al (2020) performed a Material Flow Analysis (MFA) for organic waste in the city of Amsterdam and delivered classic Sankey diagrams for these flows (see Fig. 11.1c).…”

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Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

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Advancing circularity in metropolitan areas involves planning, co-designing and implementing spatially explicit interventions with a multitude of stakeholders who are required to work with waste and resource management information. For the stakeholders, understanding information on these flows of resources and materials, and the spatial implications of these flows across the territory, is crucial when proposing new interventions and assessing the effects of these interventions. Spatial decision support systems constitute potential tools for supporting groups of stakeholders involved in the collaborative process of shaping the future of urban areas while achieving sustainability and increased circularity. This chapter focuses on the digital representation and portrayal, and the use of different types of information in a digital spatial decision support tool aimed at helping decision-makers through stages of the collaborative process that starts at problem identification and status quo understanding, and finishes at the proposed circular economy strategies for a metropolitan area. The way in which information is modeled and presented in the tool is largely based on the geodesign methodology, and is specific to individual stages of the planning process. The tool presents information relevant to a peri-urban area through different mediums: web maps and charts to describe the study area, Sankey diagrams linked with dynamic flow maps to portray its resource flow streams, and the integration of the above to portray and assess the scenarios developed jointly by the stakeholders. The tool was implemented in an interactive web application and applied to the collaborative process of developing spatial strategies for advancing circularity in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. A series of interconnected workshops were held with stakeholders, who used the tool to guide them through the stages of the co-development of the strategies. Stakeholders were presented with spatial information about the study area’s current resource and waste management situation in the form of web maps and the spatial distribution and dynamics of resource flows. This chapter describes how all this information was portrayed, presented, and used within the interactive web application at the collaborative workshops.

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Designing Circular Waste Management Strategies: The Case of Organic Waste in Amsterdam

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts

Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts

Regional Cooperation in Waste Management: Examining Australia’s Experience with Inter-municipal Cooperative Partnerships

Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

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