Hervé Corvellec
Professor
The normality of industrial and commercial waste: Economic, Technical and Organizational barriers to waste prevention
Författare
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2020-12-28
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
3-11
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Detritus
Volym
13
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
IWWG - International Waste Working Group
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- Waste prevention
- Practice theory
- Industrial waste
- Commercial waste
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Projekttitel: Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall: in- och upplåsningar
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2611-4135