Strawberry fields forever: That is, how many grams of plastics are used to grow a strawberry?

Galati, Antonino; Sabatino, Leo; Prinzivalli, C.; D’Anna, Francesca; Scalenghe, Riccardo

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111313

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“…Acknowledging the role of other key actors in reducing plastic waste, further research into the factors influencing industry-level behaviour is needed. While there are some examples of such research being conducted e.g., within the horticultural sector [71], further industry-level behavioural investigations will be necessary for designing effective strategies that enable the transition to a circular plastics economy.…”

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Barriers and Enablers to Buying Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Packaging

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Biodegradable and compostable plastic packaging (BCPP) has the potential to reduce a global plastic waste problem. We aimed to identify influences on buying BCPP as a basis for designing strategies that enable BCPP’s environmental benefits. Using a UK-focused citizen science dataset, we thematically analysed 610 survey responses to a question exploring reasons for BCPP purchase. Themes are categorised as barriers and enablers and according to the components of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour (COM-B) model of behaviour. Key barriers concerned: psychological capability (not understanding terminology used to label packaging, not taking notice of packaging, and preferring other types of packaging and product qualities); reflective motivation (negative beliefs about BCPP’s environmental impacts and skepticism over decomposition claims), and physical opportunity (no access to appropriate waste management). Key enablers concern: reflective motivation (positive beliefs about BCPP’s environmental impact and resolve to behave pro-environmentally) and physical opportunity (access to appropriate waste management). Reducing ambiguity concerning the labels of biodegradable and compostable may reduce skepticism over environmental claims of packaging. Interventions should improve information about the source of the packaging material, how the packaging waste is processed, and how to dispose of the packaging. This will not be sufficient unless facilities for local BCPP waste collection and processing are increased.

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Barriers and Enablers to Buying Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Packaging

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“…The importance of RL means that companies need to establish them in a sustainable way [28] to protect natural resources as in the social dimension, to maintain safety factors in the risk and safety dimension, to protect the environment by disposal and recycling of products, and lastly to reduce costs in the economic dimension [29][30][31]. The implementation of an RL strategy needs planning and design of a strong network and necessities a specialized backing team to maintain the network [32].…”

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A Conceptual Hybrid Approach from a Multicriteria Perspective for Sustainable Third-Party Reverse Logistics Provider Identification

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Reverse logistics (RL) is considered the reverse manner of gathering and redeploying goods at the end of their lifetime span from consumers to manufacturers in order to reutilize, dispose, or remanufacture. Whereas RL has many economic benefits, it presents compromises to businesses that wish to remain competitive but be responsible global citizens in terms of social, environmental, risk, and safety aspects of sustainable development. Managing RL systems therefore is considered a multifaceted mission that necessities a significant level of technology, infrastructure, experience, and competence. Consequently, various commerce institutions are looking to outsourcing their RL actions to third-party reverse logistics providers (3PRLPs). In this work, a novel hybrid multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework is proposed to classify and choose 3PRLPs, which comprises the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique, and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) technique under neutrosophic environment. Accordingly, AHP is availed for defining weights of key dimensions and their subindices. In addition, TOPSIS was adopted for ranking the specified 3PRLPs. The efficiency of the proposed approach is clarified through application on a considered car parts manufacturing industry case in Egypt, which shows the features of the combined MCDM methods. A comparative and sensitivity analyses were performed to highlight the benefits of the incorporated MCDM methods and for clarifying the effect of changing weights in selecting the sustainable 3PRLP alternative, respectively. The suggested framework is also shown to present more functional execution when dealing with uncertainties and qualitative inputs, demonstrating applicability to a broad range of applications. Ultimately, the best sustainable 3PRLPs were selected and results show that social, environmental, and risk and safety sustainability factors have the greatest influence when determining 3PRLPs alternatives.

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“…ALMEIDA, 2019) como, por exemplo, na criação de estruturas de consórcio nas áreas de produção (GALATI et al, 2020).…”

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“…A educação é um segundo fator e deve ser um meio para a propagação do papel do consumidor dentro do ciclo de vida do alimento (GALATI et al, 2020)…”

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Estímulos e barreiras para a economia circular no setor alimentício

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2021

Revista PO: R. Eletr. de Eng. de Produção e Correlatas

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O objetivo deste artigo é identificar artigos acadêmicos que tratam da transição para a economia circular (EC) no setor alimentício e analisar os principais estímulos, barreiras e práticas envolvidas neste processo. Para isso, uma revisão sistemática de literatura foi conduzida, utilizando a base Scopus. A partir da análise bibliométrica, de rede de palavras-chave e de conteúdo, foi possível obter uma visão geral das discussões atuais sobre o tema, que apresenta um crescente interesse, com protagonismo de países europeus e do Brasil. Entre os principais estímulos, foram identificados a eficiência energética, as novas oportunidades de mercado, a colaboração com stakeholders, a ecoeficiência e as possíveis reduções de custos. Dentre as barreiras, foram cinco as principais: tecnológicas, financeiras, operacionais, aceitação dos consumidores e legislação. A redução do consumo de matéria prima e o uso de subprodutos foram as práticas mais abordadas pelos artigos, indicando que o setor alimentício ainda tem potencial para implementar outras estratégias em direção à EC, como resultado da manufatura eficiente e uso mais inteligente dos produtos.

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Strawberry fields forever: That is, how many grams of plastics are used to grow a strawberry?

Cited by 34 publications

References 40 publications

Barriers and Enablers to Buying Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Packaging

Barriers and Enablers to Buying Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Packaging

A Conceptual Hybrid Approach from a Multicriteria Perspective for Sustainable Third-Party Reverse Logistics Provider Identification

Estímulos e barreiras para a economia circular no setor alimentício

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