PMID- 34362279
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220420
LR  - 20220420
IS  - 1096-3669 (Electronic)
VI  - 40
IP  - 6
DP  - 2022 Jun
TI  - Adoption of circular economy for food waste management in the context of a 
      developing country.
PG  - 676-684
LID - 10.1177/0734242X211038198 [doi]
AB  - Food wastage is a global concern with high economic, social and environmental 
      impacts. Pakistan, a developing country, is also significantly affected by the 
      adverse impacts of food wastage. For overcoming this problem, the transition from 
      a Linear to a Circular Economy (CE) for the management of food wastage can serve 
      as a viable strategy. However, there are barriers of political, technical and 
      cultural nature, which are impediments in the path of this transition. This study 
      aims to identify and prioritize these barriers in order of their significance. 
      This research study evaluated and ranked these barriers using a Fuzzy 
      Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technique, the Technique for Order of 
      Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). A total of 15 barriers were 
      analyzed, and the 'complicated intrinsic nature of CE', 'misleading information 
      about shelf-life leading to waste rather than distribution', 'the poor economic 
      viability of start-ups with CE model', 'corporate and organizational hesitance to 
      change/innovate' and 'technological backwardness of farmers/growers on the 
      agricultural production side' were ranked as the most significant hurdles. The 
      novelty of this study lies in its application. This study is unique as it has 
      focused on developing countries and proposed policy recommendations for the 
      transition towards a CE. In light of the above-mentioned results, this study 
      provides policy recommendations for public and private sector policymakers that 
      would facilitate the food industry in shifting towards the CE model.
FAU - Ali, Yousaf
AU  - Ali Y
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7612-497X
AD  - School of Management Sciences, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering 
      Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan.
FAU - Jokhio, Danyal Hakeem
AU  - Jokhio DH
AD  - Faculty of Material Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering 
      Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan.
FAU - Dojki, Amna Ali
AU  - Dojki AA
AD  - Faculty of Material Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering 
      Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan.
FAU - Rehman, Obaid Ur
AU  - Rehman OU
AD  - School of Management science, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences 
      and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan.
FAU - Khan, Feroz
AU  - Khan F
AD  - School of Management science, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences 
      and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan.
FAU - Salman, Aneel
AU  - Salman A
AD  - Department of Economics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, 
      Pakistan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210806
PL  - England
TA  - Waste Manag Res
JT  - Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and 
      Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
JID - 9881064
SB  - IM
MH  - Developing Countries
MH  - Food
MH  - Models, Economic
MH  - *Refuse Disposal
MH  - *Waste Management
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Food wastage
OT  - circular economy
OT  - fuzzy MCDM
OT  - identification of barriers
EDAT- 2021/08/08 06:00
MHDA- 2022/04/21 06:00
CRDT- 2021/08/07 05:23
PHST- 2021/08/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/04/21 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/08/07 05:23 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0734242X211038198 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag Res. 2022 Jun;40(6):676-684. doi: 10.1177/0734242X211038198. Epub 
      2021 Aug 6.