From Theory to Practice: Enhancing the Potential Policy Impact of Industrial Ecology

Deutz, Pauline; Ioppolo, Giuseppe

doi:10.3390/su7022259

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“…According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) Food Wastage Footprint study (cited in [3]), we waste roughly one-third of the food produced for human consumption, which amounts to over 1.3 billion tons a year globally. A sustainable food system should be based on resource use efficiency [4] in order to minimise its impact on the environment [5,6] and of course, waste has a crucial role to play here. Reducing food waste can represent part of the solution to food security and environmental challenges, namely the need to feed more people while making the food value chain more environmentally sustainable and resilient [7].…”

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Towards a More Sustainable Food Supply Chain: Opening up Invisible Waste in Food Service

2016

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Future challenges to the global food supply chain are complex. In order to embrace sustainability, companies should change their management practices towards more efficient resource use. Food waste being a misuse of resources, we identify its causes and possible ways of minimising it. To achieve this goal, we conducted explorative research with qualitative and quantitative data through in-depth semi-structured interviews and an open questionnaire with top Spanish food service companies. Results show that most businesses mainly tend to minimise food waste according to economic criteria, without taking into account the social, ethical or environmental factors. As a consequence, just "visible" food waste that has an economic impact on the results is minimised. Nevertheless, visibility of real waste is often low. At the same time, awareness of (and therefore initiatives to reduce) food waste that does not directly affect a firm's profit can be increased through multi-stakeholder collaboration. Opportunities for reducing food waste therefore arise from increasing the visibility of food that is discarded as well as addressing plate waste. We identify best practices that could lead to a reduction of the amount of food waste generated in the out of home channel in Spain.

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Towards a More Sustainable Food Supply Chain: Opening up Invisible Waste in Food Service

2016

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“…In addition, the product stage of W-BFS was classified into raw material, transportation and manufacture stages. In addition, the environmental impact of input and output materials in each stage on atmosphere and hydrosphere was assessed [20,21].…”

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The Environmental Impact and Cost Analysis of Concrete Mixing Blast Furnace Slag Containing Titanium Gypsum and Sludge in South Korea

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This study assessed the environmental effects and cost of the Industrial Waste addictive Blast Furnace Slag (W-BFS) using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and compared it to general BFS. The environmental impacts of W-BFS were as follows: 1.12ˆ10´1 kg-CO 2 eq/kg, 3.18ˆ10´5 kg-Ethylene eq/kg, 4.79ˆ10´4 kg-SO 2 eq/kg, 7.15ˆ10´4 kg-PO 4 3´e q/kg, 7.15ˆ10´4 kg-CFC 11 eq/kg and 3.94ˆ10´3 kg-Antimony eq/kg. Among the environmental impact category, GWP and AP were 9.28ˆ10´2 kg-CO 2 eq/kg and 3.33ˆ10´4 kg-SO 2 eq/kg at a raw material stage, accounting for 80% and 70% of total environmental impact respectively. In EP, POCP and ADP, in addition, raw material

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“…The importance of these dimensions is not new because the Industrial Ecology studied these dimension and their influence in sustainability. Concretely, the industrial ecology integrates environmental perspectives into production and consumption strategies with the consideration that environmental efficiencies, allow obtaining economic benefits [50,51]. In the industrial ecology, the dimensions presented in this paper are studied and assessed, using different instruments of analysis and decision support, such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Material Flow Account (MFA), Input-Output Analysis or Exergia [52].…”

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The Effects of Environmental and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in Response to the Economic Crisis of European Cities

2015

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Abstract:The concept of sustainable development, which has emerged over the last few decades, has moved away from the global to the local level. The sustainability measurements at the global level use the triple bottom line, considering environmental, economic and social dimensions; however, the limited data available at the local level has driven what little research there is to use these optics when considering cities sustainability. In this paper, we use a sustainability city index based on the intellectual capital approach, which considers the three dimensions for European cities. Concretely, we use the environmental and social dimensions of this city index to analyze the effect of different levels of development in terms of sustainability over the main economic variables with available information. The results highlight the importance of the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability in cities economic recovery and show that cities with best positions in sustainability have better performance in economic terms.

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From Theory to Practice: Enhancing the Potential Policy Impact of Industrial Ecology

Cited by 51 publications

References 102 publications

Towards a More Sustainable Food Supply Chain: Opening up Invisible Waste in Food Service

Towards a More Sustainable Food Supply Chain: Opening up Invisible Waste in Food Service

The Environmental Impact and Cost Analysis of Concrete Mixing Blast Furnace Slag Containing Titanium Gypsum and Sludge in South Korea

The Effects of Environmental and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in Response to the Economic Crisis of European Cities

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