Sustainability Objects as Performative Definitions of Sustainability: The Case of Food Waste-Based Biogas and Biofertilizers.

Corvellec, Hervé

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“…A scatolic understanding of waste opens the way for a shift from interrogating the nature of waste (e.g. Thompson, 1979) to interrogating its performances (Corvellec, 2016a(Corvellec, , 2016b. Rather than asking the question of what is waste, a scatolic understanding of waste invites to ask why this is considered waste, how it has become waste, and what the consequences are of naming something waste.…”

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Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste

Corvellec

2018

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This article coins the term ‘scatolic’ to suggest a new way for organizations to think about and engage with waste. Scatolic engagement draws on Reno’s analogy of waste as scats and of scats as signs for enabling interspecies communication. This analogy stresses the impossibility for waste producers to dissociate themselves from their waste and emphasizes the contingent, multiple, and transient value of waste. Correspondingly, the article suggests that organizations grow a semiotic competence at reading waste and develop a sense of responsibility for materials. Adopting a scatolic approach to waste is featured as a way for organizations to deal with waste in the Anthropocene.

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Section: A Biosemiotic Analogymentioning

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Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste

Corvellec

2018

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“…In the third step, we visit the biogas plant. At this point, the main make-up work concerns the act of juggling supply and demand: both the surplus and lack of gas might interrupt the view of the valuable gas as a 'sustainability object' (Corvellec, 2016). Again, the right mixture is required to acquire a pure product.…”

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“…Following Sartre, Douglas expands on stickiness as an unstable crosssection of a transformation process. But stickiness is also enriching: one learns through sensuous experiences about the world (p. 59), and perhaps some dirt can be tolerated or even welcomed by consumers if it is constructed as a sustainability object within the CE (Corvellec, 2016).…”

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“…It does not adapt to the political or material conditions, but needs to be in a flow -constantly produced and consumed. So, even if the inflow of fossil gas risks disturbing the neatness of the circularity through a disconnection of the straight relation between biogas and climate-friendliness (Corvellec, 2016), it is crucial to the CE of food.…”

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“…The organization of food waste management in Sweden differs greatly across municipalities (Corvellec, 2016;Hultman and Corvellec, 2012). One common way to manage the collection and transportation of household waste is through public procurements of the service, i.e.…”

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This article unpacks the neat straightforwardness of the ‘waste regime’ of the circular economy of food waste and its main idea: ‘waste as resource’. It explores the making of circularity by paying detailed attention to what is conceptualized as ‘make-up’ work, i.e. how interruptions and leaks along waste flows are handled in practice. Make-up work capitalizes on its double meaning. First, it highlights the covering of cracks needed in order to transform waste to energy. Second, make-up work pinpoints that the neatness of circularity is far from a straightforward technical system, but is continuously made. Through an interview-based study in Sweden, the article illuminates three steps of transformation of food waste into the commodity of biogas, analysing the material and cultural transformations, showing that the micro-management of preventing such interruptions is crucial. Problems such as lack of or misfit material, difficulties in sorting the substrate effectively, over/underproduction of gas and the political decisions steering the conditions for supply and demand are equally crucial and pose the threat that the production will be viewed as inefficient. Based on these results, the article emphasizes the need to problematize the paradigm of the circular economy and the zero-waste regime, on the one hand, and to recognize the work involved in striving for a sustainable society, on the other.

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2019

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Sustainability Objects as Performative Definitions of Sustainability: The Case of Food Waste-Based Biogas and Biofertilizers.

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Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste

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