الهدر في استهلاك الخبز في الأردن = Wasteful Consumption of Bread in Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
محمد إبراهيم عبيدات ◽  
ياسمين عبد اللطيف السرابي
Keyword(s):  
Wasteful Consumption

The Business of More

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Big Box ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

This chapter pans out from the islands of the Pacific to analyze the forces of unsustainable production and consumption underlying the global sustainability crisis. It demonstrates how, everywhere, inequality is increasing, as is conspicuous, wasteful consumption as companies pursue more sales and more profits. The chapter highlights how advertisers manufacture desires and needs, how big-box retailers and brand manufacturers claiming to be responsible and sustainable are selling inexpensive, nondurable products, and how governments finance infrastructure (e.g., subsidizing roads and bridges) to stimulate even higher levels of consumption. States pursue more consumption in the name of economic growth; multinational corporations for more profits for owners and shareholders; and the world’s billionaires to amass even more wealth. One result, as this chapter documents, is extreme and rising inequality, with 1 percent of the world’s population now controlling approximately half of the world’s wealth. Other results include rising ecological footprints, overexploitation of natural resources, and an escalating global environmental crisis – the themes of the book’s next chapter.

الهدر في استهلاك الخبز في الأردن = Wasteful Consumption of Bread in Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 2187-2197
Author(s):  
ياسمين السرابي ◽  
علي الخضر
Keyword(s):  
Wasteful Consumption

scholarly journals Waste Management Strategies in Textile & Garment Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 06 (9S) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
Gupta Khusbu Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Consumer Awareness ◽  
Negative Contribution ◽  
Textile Waste ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Textile Recycling ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

Textiles and Apparel (T&A) sector is one of the most significant industrial sectors and plays a major role towards contribution to national economy, employment generation and exports in developing countriesand most essential consumer goods industry. However, textile industry is accused of being one of the most polluting industries. Not only production but consumption of textiles also produces waste. To counter the problem, textile industry has taken many measures for reducing its negative contribution towards environment. One of such measures is textile recycling- the reuse as well as reproduction of fibers from textile waste. Recycling can be done through thermal, material, chemical and mechanical processes. Textile recycling is beneficial for environmental and economic conditions, reducing demand for textile chemicals, requirement of landfill space is reduced, consumption of less energy and reducing of water wastage. Market research, and efforts are needed to increase consumer awareness and to encourage manufacturers to increase the use of recycled textile waste into new products. Fashion consumption and sustainability are often opposing ideas. Fashion consumption is a highly resource-intensive, wasteful practice; and sustainability frowns on wasteful consumption. Sustainability in the fashion business is still an emerging agenda, not yet established, and many authors have recognised the importance of investigating how sustainability could be achieved

College students' perceptions of campus sustainability

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Emanuel ◽  
J.N. Adams
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Day To Day Operations ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether or not there are differences between college students in Alabama and Hawaii based on three questions: are students concerned about the present/future? What do students know about sustainability? Who is responsible for sustainability?Design/methodology/approachTwo approaches were used to address these questions. First, a summary of sustainability efforts at universities in Alabama and Hawaii is provided. Second, a random sample of 406 undergraduate students at two universities in Alabama (n=258) and at a community college in Hawaii (n=148) were surveyed.FindingsThe data indicate that sustainable programs and practices are being implemented on a number of college campuses in Alabama and in Hawaii. Students surveyed in both states are concerned about wasteful consumption and pollution. Respondents' were similar in their self‐assessed knowledge about sustainability. Respondents were also similar in their views about who is responsible for sustainability. However, a consistently larger proportion of Hawaii respondents expressed concern for and willingness to participate in sustainable practices. So, there seems to be little or no “knowledge gap” when it comes to campus sustainability, but there does seem to be a “commitment gap.” Possible reasons for this are discussed.Originality/valueSince the 1980s, many universities in the USA have elected to incorporate sustainability practices into campus development and day‐to‐day operations. They are now emerging as environmental leaders and innovators. An understanding of students' perceptions of sustainability may give insight into whether or not and how they are likely to engage in sustainable practices.

Waste on the Tip of the Tongue: Social Eating Livestreams (Chibo) in the Age of Chinese Affluence

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-69
Author(s):  
Lina Qu
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Psychosocial Adaptation ◽  
Local Form ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Eating ◽  
Ethical Controversy ◽  
Tip Of The Tongue ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

Abstract This article investigates Chinese social eating livestreams (chibo) in the context of China’s 2020 campaign against food waste. It argues that the subgenre ‘big stomach kings’, a target of the campaign, evinces the moral implications of Chinese affluence, of which food waste is exemplary. The emerging affluence in China has normalized conspicuous, wasteful consumption and given rise to a local form of flaunting wealth called ‘xuanfu’. Chinese social media are inundated with xuanfu images, a symptom of the necessary psychosocial adaptation to affluence. Isolating the ‘big stomach kings’ livestreams from the social context of xuanfu, the anti-waste campaign glosses over the underlying social issue of the vast wealth gap between the affluent and the poor. To expose the ethical controversy of these livestreams, the article also analyzes their gender politics by parsing the mystifying image of female ‘big stomach kings’, whose slim bodies are in stark contrast to their enormous appetites.

Exploring wasteful consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Ching Lin ◽  
Chiu-chi Angela Chang
Keyword(s):  
Wasteful Consumption
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