The role of policy labels, keywords and framing in transitioning waste policy

Silva, Angie; Stocker, Laura; Mercieca, Paul; John, Michele

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.069

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“…The idiosyncratic coinciding of the terms waste and zero, signifies a direct challenge and the deliberate confrontation of both, the normative function and implication of the non-neutral language of waste [3] and the deeply vested industrial triumvirate (aka "Take-Make-Waste" [6,56,73]), dominating the core of the global current economic system. The discourse and community of zero waste in the respective theoretical nurture and actual participation in waste activism, denotes a rejection and stark disassociation from the entrenched role of traditional waste management, as an enabler of the economic primacy given to consumption and capitalist growth models [3,72]. Even before encountering any of the numerous actual practical barriers to influencing "modes of governance", the word couple-zero and waste, directly contests the embedded connotation of waste, relative to the dominant political rhetoric and reality [3,72,79,113].…”

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“…This commentary article will examine the phenomenon of zero waste in respect of the concept, planning, and design of future cities and will clarify some of the ambiguity that occurs when the terms, zero and waste, are combined [3]. The article will also discuss some of the learning emerging from key zero waste experiences, relative to selected elements of critique around the zero waste movement.…”

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“…The evolving concept and emerging practice of zero waste is a controversial sphere of discussion across urban development, manufacturing, and waste management [1][2][3]. However, the ideal and goal of zero waste continues to be embraced by individuals, families, communities, business organisations, as well as, local municipal and national levels of government responding to the issue of waste [1,4,5].…”

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“…The zero waste movement [76] can be viewed as one of a cluster of sustainability actors, which both highlight and respond to the nexus of failure, inertia, and growing sense of crisis, that is associated with the conventional waste management paradigm [3,58,77]. The zero waste movement encompasses a range of perspectives and approaches [1,4] and can be regarded as a neologism, residing in a busy "eco-ideas marketplace", alongside interrelated and complementary theses on how sustainable development can be engineered [3,58,78].…”

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“…The zero waste movement encompasses a range of perspectives and approaches [1,4] and can be regarded as a neologism, residing in a busy "eco-ideas marketplace", alongside interrelated and complementary theses on how sustainable development can be engineered [3,58,78]. For example, whilst disciplines, such as industrial ecology (IE), urban metabolism (UM), and bioeconomy (BE), and the movements for a "circular economy" (CE) and zero waste each arise out of differing: perspectives, personalities, and intellectual traditions, the appearance of shared cognitive DNA seems clear [79,125].…”

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Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

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Zaman

2018

Urban Science

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Abstract:The evolving phenomenon of zero waste encompasses the theory, practice, and learning of individuals, families, businesses, communities, and government organisations, responding to perceptions of crisis and failure around conventional waste management. The diverse and growing body of international zero waste experience, can be portrayed as both, an entirely new and alternative waste management paradigm, and or, interpreted as overlapping, extending, and synergetic with a general evolution towards more sustainable waste/resource management practices. Combining the terms zero and waste provokes creative, intellectual, and pragmatic tensions, which provide a contemporary axis for necessary debate and innovation in this sphere of resource management. This commentary draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and utilises some elements of the critique of zero waste, as a lens to examine and better understand this heterogeneous global community of practice. In particular, how the concept and implementation of a zero waste goal can increase community engagement and be a catalyst for the design and management of a more circular urban metabolism and hence, more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable future (zero waste) cities.

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Section: Current and Future Cities: A Crucible Of Issues-a Milieu Formentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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2018

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Making sense of circular economy: Understanding the progression from idea to action

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This study examines how management and organisation sciences can contribute to and accelerate circular economy (CE) practices by providing insight into how circular oriented innovation (COI) processes unfold. Emergent theory and recent empirical evidence shows that research into CE needs to acknowledge both salient commonalities between circular solutions, but—crucially—also their differences. A range of well‐known circular strategy frameworks exist that offer suggestions for understanding circular strategies in relation to each other. However, at present such frameworks tend to be normative and conceptual. Our objective is therefore twofold: (1) to develop an analytical framework for CE that is grounded in both theory and practice, as well as (2) to demonstrate the application of such a framework to a wide range of different circular solutions and how this can lead to new insights and new directions for research. We deploy a longitudinal qualitative multi‐case case study design, where we focus on business‐led COI projects, covering innovation projects of 23 product(s) (groups) for 19 focal companies. We identify circular pivots, minimal viable circular configuration, continuous improvement of circular configurations and interactions between circular strategies as particularly important phenomena and the importance of taking a longer time horizon to understand circular phenomena in business. Moreover, we identify a lack of application of structured approaches in practice—to complexity, to circular strategies and to value network development—which, if left unaddressed, pose a risk that CE will not achieve a positive systemic impact.

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Twitter is garbage: A Thick Big Data exploration of #zerowaste hashtag on Twitter in relation to packaging and food packaging materials

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Jemielniak

2022

Packag Technol Sci

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Zero Waste (ZW) is a relatively new concept of waste reduction, which encourages life cycle thinking in the design of new products and services. Today ZW is becoming a lifestyle trend and social media amplifies this trend and helps to propagate the movement. The popularisation of the ZW concept through social media can be attributed to Bea Johnson, author of a bestselling book on ZW living. Many tips on how to achieve ZW living in Bea Johnson's book refer to food packaging and packaging materials, and literature shows that global consumers are increasingly concerned about the negative environmental impacts of packaging waste. Given the popularity of ZW lifestyle in social media, this study explores the ZW trend as reported by users of the popular social media platform Twitter through the lens of Bea Johnson's ZW living model, taking into consideration the public concern on packaging and packaging materials. For the purposes of this paper, Twitter discourse on ZW is used to draw conclusions on the popular understanding of its impact and effects. This paper uses Thick Big Data study of the collected 124,077 tweets with #zerowaste hashtag. In the study, it was found that majority of popular tweets with #zerowaste hashtag refer to packaging and food packaging. The majority of tweets focused on plastics, and the sentiment of this packaging material was negative. Other packaging materials found in #zerowaste hashtag tweets include paper, glass and metal, and the sentiment for those materials is gradually more positive.

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The role of policy labels, keywords and framing in transitioning waste policy

Cited by 35 publications

References 57 publications

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Making sense of circular economy: Understanding the progression from idea to action

Twitter is garbage: A Thick Big Data exploration of #zerowaste hashtag on Twitter in relation to packaging and food packaging materials

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