Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand

Diprose, Gradon; Dombroski, Kelly; Sharp, Emma L.; Yates, Amanda; Peryman, Bailey; Barnes, Martine

doi:10.1111/nzg.12348

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“…Finally, the findings indicated that infrastructural and institutional barriers hinder the sustainable development efforts of the FP companies, including inadequate waste management infrastructure, a lack of environmental regulations for air emissions and limited recycling facilities (Diprose et al , 2023; Sustainable Business Network, 2021). In addition, the missing recycling labels on plastic packaging products also create infrastructural barriers preventing the FP industry from achieving sustainable development; nevertheless, there is a lack of studies highlighting this issue.…”

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“…According to an estimate, the daily plastic waste per capita [grams(g)/person/day] in NZ is approximately 159 g, compared with larger populous countries like Australia with 117 g per person, and Norway with only 26 g per person (De Bhowmick et al , 2021). Furthermore, NZ is also facing several sustainability problems such as increasing landfill, lack of recycling infrastructure and increasing food waste associated with the FP industry (Diprose et al , 2023; Farrukh et al , 2023).…”

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An exploratory study of barriers to sustainable development: evidence from the New Zealand flexible packaging industry

Farrukh,

Sajjad

2024

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Purpose Manufacturing companies continue to encounter a diverse set of obstacles while embracing sustainable development goals. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to explore critical sustainable development-related barriers to flexible packaging manufacturing companies in the New Zealand context. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a qualitative multiple case studies approach, the authors collected data from the New Zealand flexible packaging industry. Semistructured interviews were conducted with the senior corporate managers in two large flexible packaging companies. Following the thematic analysis approach, the authors analyzed the information collected from the participants and synthesized our findings under the key dimensions of internal and external barriers to sustainable development. Findings The findings revealed that internal barriers to sustainable flexible packaging are linked to economic, operational and technical issues. Conversely, external barriers include global crises and disruption, customer behavior and preferences and institutional and infrastructural-related aspects. Based on the analysis of empirical findings, the authors further identified the underlying reasons for sustainable flexible packaging barriers and recommended guidelines that could assist corporate managers and policymakers in addressing obstacles inhibiting the flexible packaging industry from adopting sustainable business practices. Originality/value The authors argue that this study is one of the early studies to consider inhibiting factors to incorporate sustainable development into the New Zealand flexible packaging industry context. Building on a range of theoretical perspectives, the authors extend the current body of knowledge seeking to advance the sustainable development agenda in the New Zealand flexible packaging industry and offer recommended pathways fostering sustainable development in a distinctive manufacturing context.

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An exploratory study of barriers to sustainable development: evidence from the New Zealand flexible packaging industry

Farrukh,

Sajjad

2024

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“…These are all social as well as ecological problems. The kinds of infrastructures that separate us from the cycling of organic waste/nutrients produce a particular kind of waste subjectivity (Diprose et al, 2023). The kind of thinking that focuses on separations, categories, hierarchies and classifications both emerges from and contributes to forms of relational metabolic rift.…”

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Thinking with soils: Can urban farms help us heal metabolic rifts in Aotearoa?

Goburdhone,

Dombroski

2023

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In this commentary, we reflect on our work with an urban youth farm where young people (re)connect to the food system. Participating in everyday soil creation and care activities nurtured new relationships with more‐than‐human ecologies and beings at an urban farm called Cultivate Christchurch. In this farm, participants engaged with soils and the process of making and regenerating soil from food waste via composting. We ask whether such activities can begin to help participants think with soil rather than about it, and to heal the ‘metabolic rift’, the socioecological disconnect from food growing and nutrient cycles.

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“…Street food pantries provide a means through which responsibility for the provisioning of food is localised, in that it shifts from food banks to local communities and individuals who are in need (Diprose et al, 2023). A focus on street food pantries, then, goes beyond the material circulation and redistribution of food itself, in order to understand the blurring of home and paid work and gendered suburban geographies of responsibility (Strong, 2020).…”

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Street food pantries as gendered sites of labour and home: Suburban geographies of food (in)securities in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa New Zealand

Johnston,

Adams‐Hutcheson

2023

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Open street food pantries are a community‐led response to food insecurity, food waste, poverty and climate action. They are at the centre of a dynamic interplay of material, cultural, spatial and embodied relations. This article explores the gendered and spatial politics of home, labour and food in suburban communities through examining street food pantries in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. We use multisensory methods (participant sensing and interviews) with pantry owners and community centre leaders to show the gendered labour and emotional connections associated with street food pantries and suburban communities experiencing food insecurity.

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Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

An exploratory study of barriers to sustainable development: evidence from the New Zealand flexible packaging industry

An exploratory study of barriers to sustainable development: evidence from the New Zealand flexible packaging industry

Thinking with soils: Can urban farms help us heal metabolic rifts in Aotearoa?

Street food pantries as gendered sites of labour and home: Suburban geographies of food (in)securities in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa New Zealand

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