Moving up the Waste Hierarchy in Maine: Learning from “Best Practice” State-Level Policy for Waste Reduction and Recovery

Isenhour, Cindy; Blackmer, Travis; Wagner, Travis P.; Silka, Linda; Peckenham, John M.; Hart, David D.; MacRae, Jean D.

doi:10.53558/vzub1903

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Policy Intervention of Waste Management

Shooshtarian,

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Wong

2023

Waste Management in the Circular Economy

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Policy Intervention of Waste Management

Shooshtarian,

Maqsood,

Wong

2023

Waste Management in the Circular Economy

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

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Drawing on research with food waste recycling facilities in New England, this paper explores a fundamental tension between the eco-modernist logics of the circular economy and the reality of contemporary waste streams. Composting and digestion are promoted as key solutions to food waste, due to their ability to return nutrients to agricultural soils. However, our work suggests that food waste processors increasingly find themselves responsible for policing boundaries between distinct “material” and “biological” systems as imagined by the architects of the circular economy—boundaries penetrable by toxicants. This responsibility creates significant problems for processors due to the regulatory, educational, and structural barriers documented in this research. This paper contributes to scholarship which suggests the need to rethink the modernist logics of the circular economy and to recognize the realities of entangled material and biological systems. More specifically, we argue that if circularity is the goal, policy needs to recognize the barriers food waste processors face and concentrate circularity efforts further upstream to ensure fair, just, and safe circular food systems.

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Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons across Highly Diverse Public Participation Activities

Silka

McGreavy

Hart

2016

Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

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Most lessons about public participation are gleaned from very specific domains, yet innovative ideas often emerge when lessons across very different domains are brought together. Our public engagement efforts span health, the environment, and sustainability in rural and urban settings with long term residents as well as new immigrants. We have worked with hundreds of faculty and stakeholders in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire on topics as varied as immigrant fishing in contaminated water, shared governance of shellfish areas, remediation of lead contamination in urban areas, and shared decision making on dam removal. The diversity of these efforts offers lessons about strategies for public engagement for decision making.

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Moving up the Waste Hierarchy in Maine: Learning from “Best Practice” State-Level Policy for Waste Reduction and Recovery

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Policy Intervention of Waste Management

Policy Intervention of Waste Management

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

Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons across Highly Diverse Public Participation Activities

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