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Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town.
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| author | Marshak, Maya |
| author2 | Battersby-Lennard, Jane |
| author_browse | Battersby-Lennard, Jane Marshak, Maya |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11973 Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. Marshak, Maya Battersby-Lennard, Jane Environmental and Geographical Science Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This thesis explores the management of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. In doing so it highlights both its underutilisation and its potential transition from waste to resource. Through an extended micro study of a single case study store it traces the management of food waste from the supermarket into the wider systems of waste management in the city. It then explores the barriers and potentials for managing food waste further as a resource. While recycling has increased in the city over the past decade, this thesis demonstrates that at present there does not exist a comprehensive system for the recycling of supermarket food waste, particularly non-edible and animal protein wastes. As a result most of this waste is sent to landfill where it causes environmental damage and endangers human health. 2015-01-10T13:32:06Z 2015-01-10T13:32:06Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MSocSci http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11973 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and Geographical Science Marshak, Maya Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| title_full | Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| title_fullStr | Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| title_short | Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. |
| title_sort | systems in transition from waste to resource a study of supermarket food waste in cape town |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11973 |
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