Toxicants, entanglement, and mitigation in New England’s emerging circular economy for food waste

Isenhour, Cindy; Haedicke, Michael A.; Berry, Brieanne; MacRae, Jean D.; Blackmer, Travis; Horton, Skyler

doi:10.1007/s13412-021-00742-w

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“…That somewhere between 30% and 40% of food produced in the U.S. is wasted is well-documented (Birney et al, 2017;Buzby et al, 2014;Cuéllar & Webber, 2010) and largely indefensible, considering the federal, state, and nonprofit resources devoted yearly to feeding food-insecure households. Though many private and nonprofit organizations have made commitments to reducing waste at the field, distribution, and retail stages of the marketing channel, and the EPA and USDA have established nationwide waste mitigation goals, food waste remains an enduring problem (Horton et al, 2019;Isenhour et al, 2022;Van Bemmel & Parizeau, 2020). Colleges and universities also have a history of engagement with this issue.…”

Section: Food and Today's College Studentsmentioning

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The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

Evans

Roggio

2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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As has become abundantly clear to the social scientists, agriculturalists, policymakers, and food justice advocates who have taken up the fight, progress toward more resilient, fair, and effective food systems is hard fought and prone to challenges. Vexingly, the competing goals of food system improvement even make defining “success” in food system transformation difficult: accessible, affordable food versus nutritious food; diversity in the agricultural economy versus the cost savings of consolidation; and consumer choice and variety versus the ecological advantages of eating seasonally and locally. In this commentary, we treat American college campuses as analogs of the larger food system and as such, laboratories[1] for study of these systemic tradeoffs and proving grounds for policy interventions. We argue that the lived context of college students approximates that of communities in which financial, logistical, and other challenges negatively affect nutrition, equitable food access, and food knowledge outcomes. We suggest that the rigorous assessment of changes in educational philosophy, management practices, and spending priorities on campuses may offer insight into the ways in which we might effect change throughout the broad national food landscape, to facilitate the transition to more equitable and just food systems. [1] Our propositions here connect more broadly with the literature examining the campus as a living laboratory, which addresses a wide array of sustainability issues (e.g., Gomez & Derr, 2021; Hansen, 2017; Save et al., 2021).

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Section: Food and Today's College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

Evans

Roggio

2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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A defense of waste: the case of municipal food recycling in Sweden

Abrahamsson

2022

Environmental Sociology

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The (missing) social aspect of the circular economy: a review of social scientific articles

Zavos,

Lehtokunnas,

Pyyhtinen

2024

Sustain Earth Reviews

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Academic research on the Circular Economy has been proliferating at an unprecedented pace during the last decade. However, scholarly work on the topic is dominated by a focus on hard scientific, technical and corporate/business management approaches, leaving the social sciences underrepresented in the relevant literature. This review article covers the current Anglophone social scientific research on the circular economy with special attention to waste. A total of 161 works aligning with the scope of this article were examined. These works were analysed in light of two questions: the reviewed studies’ knowledge interest and the dimension(s) of the CE they gave emphasis to. In result, the articles were charted along two axes: Instrumental/Technical (Quadrant I), Analytical/Technical (Quadrant II), Instrumental/Social (Quadrant III), and Analytical/Social (Quadrant IV). The findings of this review article demonstrate a strong thematic interest related to the circular economy in global, major issues of governance; transition and implementation; consumption and consumer behaviour; as well as the associated logic, concepts and definitions. A weaker thematic interest appeared in relation to the cultural, political and ethical dimensions of the circular economy, while critical engagements with and contestations of the model remain fairly rare. Moreover, the analysis revealed the relative absence of detailed empirical scholarship on the more-than-human relations and the micro-level, local everyday practices through which the circular economy becomes actualised. This review calls for the proliferation of such works currently situated in the margins of the circular economy literature. However, as is finally proposed, a balanced mapping of a circular economy transition would require an approach that would problematise levels, scales and dichotomies like ‘global’ and ‘local’ as categorical givens.

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Toxicants, entanglement, and mitigation in New England’s emerging circular economy for food waste

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

A defense of waste: the case of municipal food recycling in Sweden

The (missing) social aspect of the circular economy: a review of social scientific articles

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