Governing the circular economy: Assessing the capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in low- and middle-income countries

Ddiba, Daniel; Andersson, Kim; Koop, S.H.A.; Ekener, Elisabeth; Finnveden, Göran; Dickin, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.esg.2020.100063

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“…Both anaerobic digestion and composting are infrastructure heavy and, in seeking to engage councils with organics processing options, the government has allocated several rounds of grant funding [77,78]. Anaerobic digestion installation and maintenance expenses currently bring a dependence on grant funding and a requirement for ongoing financially supportive, sustainable and collaborative policy [79,80], but it is proving itself environmentally cost effective. It is worth noting that constructing the infrastructure with future practices and valorisation in mind [81] can re-contextualise household food waste as a resource rather than a waste, as well as draw explicit connections between correct inputs and constructive outputs [82].…”

Section: Household Food Waste Processing Systems (The Outputs)mentioning

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours

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Dealing with the wicked problem of global food waste and loss is a complex and challenging area. In Australia, increased political will has landed the diversion of domestic food waste from landfill squarely at the feet of local government (councils), often requiring significant change to kerbside collections systems. This paper discusses how post-kerbside household food waste treatment systems can encourage pro-environmental behaviours. To achieve this, current food waste literature is examined against kerbside domestic waste collection measurable outcomes (diversion rates, system uptake and contamination rates). The hypothesis is that specific interventions can establish, or rebuild, community trust, responsibility and pro-environmental behaviours around food waste avoidance and diversion. Two post-kerbside systems—commercial composting and anaerobic digestion—provided the framework. Two themes emerged from the study: (1) the benefits of connecting the community with the interactions of household food waste inputs with post-treatment outputs (compost, soil conditioners, digestates and biogases); and (2) providing engaged communities with pathways for sustainable, pro-environmental actions whilst normalizing correct kerbside food waste recycling for the less engaged (habitual behaviours, knowledge and cooperation). The paper contributes to understanding how councils can connect their communities with the issues of household food waste.

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Section: Household Food Waste Processing Systems (The Outputs)mentioning

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours

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“…This alignment can help improve environmental quality while generating business opportunities [11]. Additionally, it can enhance social wellbeing by providing employment opportunities, improving health conditions, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and, most importantly, securing water [12][13][14]. In the CE, the water product can gain value by providing a service as water provision, as an energy source (carbon and thermal), and by acting as a carrier (e.g., of nutrients) [11].…”

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An Integrated Assessment Framework for Transition to Water Circularity

2022

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Changing our unsustainable linear water management pattern is necessary to face growing global water challenges. This article proposes an integrated framework to analyse and understand the role of different contextual conditions in the possible transition towards water circularity. Our framework combines a systematic multi-level perspective to explore the water system and the institutional work theory for technology legitimation. The framework consists of the following stages: (1) describing and understanding the water context, (2) assessment of the selected technologies’ circularity level, (3) assessment of the alternative circular technologies’ legitimacy, and (4) identification of the legitimation actions to support the upscale of alternative circular technologies. The practical applicability of the integrated assessment framework and its four assessment stages was demonstrated in the exploration of circular water technologies for the horticulture sector in Westland, the Netherlands. The results revealed the conditions that hinder or enable the legitimation of the circular water technologies, such as political environmentalism, trust in water governing authorities, and technical, financial, and knowledge capabilities.

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“…This is an area for further studies, potentially building on business models described by Otoo and Drechsel (2018). In addition, it is important to keep in mind that realizing the full potential for resource recovery would require measures to address the existing social, logistical, economic, policy and governance challenges that also hinder resource recovery (Ddiba et al, 2020).…”

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The circular economy potential of urban organic waste streams in low- and middle-income countries

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Andersson

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et al. 2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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There is growing recognition of the potential environmental and socio-economic benefits of applying a circular approach to urban organic waste management through resource recovery. Decisions around planning and implementing circular urban waste systems require estimates of the quantity of resources available in waste streams and their potential market value. However, studies assessing circular economy potential have so-far been conducted mostly in high-income countries, yet cities in low- and middle-income countries have different challenges when developing a circular economy. This paper addresses this gap by estimating the resource recovery potential of organic waste streams in the context of low- and middle-income countries, illustrated with the case of Kampala, Uganda. A simplified material flow analysis approach is used to track the transformation of waste streams, namely faecal sludge, sewage sludge and organic solid waste into the resource recovery products biogas, solid fuel, black soldier fly larvae and compost. Findings indicate that even at current rates of waste collection, the three waste streams combined could annually yield 135,000 tonnes of solid fuel or 39.6 million Nm3 of biogas or 15,000 tonnes of black soldier fly larvae or 108,000 tonnes of compost and revenues from the products could range from 5.1 million USD from compost to 47 million USD from biogas. The results demonstrate how complex information describing urban waste can be presented to facilitate decision making and planning by stakeholders. By highlighting different resource recovery opportunities, application of this approach could provide an incentive for more sustainable urban sanitation and waste management systems.

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Governing the circular economy: Assessing the capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in low- and middle-income countries

Cited by 50 publications

References 43 publications

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Using Post-Kerbside Organics Treatment Systems to Engage Australian Communities with Pro-Environmental Household Food Waste Behaviours

An Integrated Assessment Framework for Transition to Water Circularity

The circular economy potential of urban organic waste streams in low- and middle-income countries

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