A defense of waste: the case of municipal food recycling in Sweden

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2124622

Sebastian Abrahamsson

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article is an empirical analysis of food waste management and food recycling in Sweden. Currently, across Sweden, attempts are being made to achieve a circular economy whereby food wastes are transformed into resources. Food waste is used to produce biogas and bio fertilizer, and the enactment of food waste as a resource turns the waste into a raw material over which waste management organizations compete. Against this backdrop, the article interferes with research in ‘waste studies’ that highlight transformation of waste into something valuable, and proposes instead to ‘defend’ waste against the CE. The paper contributes to ‘waste studies’ and research on the circular economy by cautioning about the risks involved both in the establishment of a circular economy, and the treatment of waste as valuable. The empirical material used draws on a research project in which interviews were carried out with ‘waste workers’ in Swedish waste management organizations.

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为浪费辩护:瑞典城市食物回收的案例

摘要本文是对瑞典食品废弃物管理和食品回收利用的实证分析。目前，瑞典各地都在努力实现循环经济，将食物垃圾转化为资源。食物垃圾被用来生产沼气和生物肥料，而将食物垃圾作为一种资源，将其转化为废物管理组织竞争的原材料。在这种背景下，这篇文章干扰了“废物研究”中强调将废物转化为有价值的东西的研究，并建议对CE“保护”废物。该论文对“废物研究”和循环经济研究做出了贡献，提醒人们建立循环经济所涉及的风险，以及废物处理的价值。所使用的实证材料借鉴了一个研究项目，在该项目中，对瑞典废物管理组织的“废物工人”进行了采访。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

4.60

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12.00%

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