Drivers and Barriers for the Valorization of the Apricot Pit

An extended institutional theory perspective on the adoption of circular economy practices: Insights from the seafood industry

“…The literature on food by-product valorisation has identified a number of facilitators and hindrances in various processing contexts, such as the dairy, slaughterhouse, beer brewing (Gregg et al, 2020), and apricot sectors (Boumali et al, 2020). Donner et al (2021) To overcome this issue, we borrow the extended institutional theory's classification approach (Section 2.1) to group the drivers and barriers found in the extant literature into four groups.…”

“…Stricter environmental laws (such as the whey disposal law; Gregg et al, 2020) and the relaxation of regulations (such as allowing the use of slaughterhouse by-products in the AD plants) drive valorisation efforts (Donner et al, 2021). Regulatory drivers also derive from the availability of fiscal incentives (Donner et al, 2021) and public funding for research and development (R&D) projects in food-waste valorisation (Ong et al, 2018;Boumali et al, 2020).…”

“…They include the recognition of the potential to recover valuable nutrients and energy from by-products (Joshi and Visvanathan, 2019), an awareness of the environmental issues associated with food waste -which, in turn, drives the commitment to engage in clean production to tackle the problem (Joshi and Visvanathan, 2019;Leder et al, 2020) -as well as ecological awareness to reduce human dependencies on virgin resource depletion (Joshi and Visvanathan, 2019;Santagata et al, 2021). Collaboration and information sharing among stakeholders also facilitate the adoption of CE in the context of unconventional non-food production (Boumali et al, 2020;Leder et al, 2020). The last driver lies in customers' interest in buying 'green' products generated by transparent and traceable bio-based production processes, and particularly products that are locally produced from nature-based functionalities (Gregg et al, 2020;Donner et al, 2021).…”

“…First, legal barriers include ineffective recycling policies, ambiguity in waste disposal policy (Sadhukhan et al, 2020), changes in agricultural waste management legislation, complex and region-specific regulations (Leder et al, 2020;Donner et al, 2021), and restrictions on the reuse of by-products due to food safety and quality concerns (Santagata et al, 2021). Regulatory barriers also include the absence of a legislative framework to govern trading in the by-product market (Boumali et al, 2020;Leder et al, 2020) and bureaucratic processes for the safety approval of novel end products (Donner et al, 2021). Second, insufficient law enforcement capability consists of inadequate monitoring and even insufficient budget allocations (Joshi and Visvanathan, 2019).…”

A Novel Approach to the Authentication of Apricot Seed Cultivars Using Innovative Models Based on Image Texture Parameters

“…However, economical and efficient seed utilization requires knowledge of the cultivars' composition and physical properties [5]. It is very important to recover by-products from apricot processing and to reduce the impact on the environment [6]. The properties of apricot stones and seeds must be considered in the design of equipment for transportation, sorting, separating, breaking, and processing [7].…”