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Title Food waste management in the retail sector: challenges that hinder transition to circular economy
ID_Doc 29052
Authors Kazancoglu, I; Ozbiltekin-Pala, M; Kazancoglu, Y; Kumar, P
Title Food waste management in the retail sector: challenges that hinder transition to circular economy
Year 2022
Published Journal Of Material Cycles And Waste Management, 24.0, 2
DOI 10.1007/s10163-022-01350-8
Abstract The retail sector is one of the growing sectors all over the world. As the sector grows, the amount of food waste generated increases, and waste management becomes more complicated day by day. The amount of waste produced, especially in the food retail sector, shows how much waste management policies should be planned. However, waste management policies cannot be carried out effectively in the food retail sector, especially in emerging economies. Since waste management is not well planned, it faces many difficulties in recycling activities. For this purpose, the study aims to investigate the challenges encountered in the inability to evaluate food wastes in the retail sector within the framework of circular economy to highlight retailer markets to have effective waste management policies. For this reason, 16 challenges of food waste management were listed, and the relations of these challenges with each other were analyzed with the fuzzy TISM method. As a result of the study, challenges are determined as the most crucial issues for food waste management in the retail sector. As managerial and policy implications, suggestions are made on the necessity of new policies, the usability of Industry 4.0 technologies for the problem, i.e. in the retail sector.
Author Keywords Retail sector; Waste management; Total interpretive structural modelling; Food waste
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000741922800001
WoS Category Environmental Sciences
Research Area Environmental Sciences & Ecology
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