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Emma Samsioe.

Emma Samsioe

Associate senior lecturer

Emma Samsioe.

The normality of industrial and commercial waste: Economic, Technical and Organizational barriers to waste prevention

Author

  • Anette Svingstedt
  • Hervé Corvellec
  • Emma Samsioe

Summary, in English

This study shows that the production of industrial and commercial waste should form part of normal organisational practices. When asked about waste prevention, representatives of food, textile, electronics and construction companies in Sweden have difficulties highlighting concrete waste-prevention objectives, measures and outcomes. Instead, they highlight economic, technical, and organisational barriers that prevent them from engaging in waste prevention, thereby endowing the pro- duction of waste with an economic, technical and organisational rationality. This triple rationalisation of waste production amounts to the managerial normalisation of waste that obstructs the implementation of waste prevention policies. Thus, we suggest that these policies aim to de-normalise industrial and commercial waste in similar ways to the measures used to de-normalise household waste.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2020-12-28

Language

English

Pages

3-11

Publication/Series

Detritus

Volume

13

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IWWG - International Waste Working Group

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Waste prevention
  • Practice theory
  • Industrial waste
  • Commercial waste

Status

Published

Project

  • Projekttitel: Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall: in- och upplåsningar

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2611-4135