1. Blockchain encoding of Food waste behaviours in support of a Circular Economy
Amir M. Sharif & Zahir Irani
Presented By:
Jyoti Mishra

2. Origins of Food Waste (WRI)
During or immediately after harvesting on the farm
After leaving the farm for handling, storage, and transport
During industrial or domestic processing and/or packaging
During distribution to markets, including at wholesale and retail markets
In the home or business of the consumer, including restaurants and
caterers
Source: WRI analysis based on FAO Global food losses and food waste – extent, causes and prevention. Rome: UN FAO.
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

3. Boulding, K. (1966). The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth.
Energy
System
Problems
Human
Material
Open
Knowledge
Outputs
Information
Consumption …
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

4. Spaceship Earth vs the Circular Economy?
Source: Kalmykova et al. (2018)
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
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5. Spaceship Earth vs the Circular Economy?
Source: Merli et al. (2018)
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
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6. Food Waste Research 16 November, 201816 November, 2018
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7. Food Waste as a System Archetype
Source: Braun (2002)
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
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8. Food Waste as a System Archetype
Reinforcing elements
Balancing elements
Limiting condition
Slowing action
Results
Source: Adapted from Sharif and Irani; (2016); Irani and Sharif (2017)
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

9. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ1: What are the underlying behavioural drivers for food waste from a CE perspective?
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Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

10. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ2: How can sustainable business model archetypes (Bocken et al., 2014) be integrated with upstream and downstream points of cause-and-effect along the food waste chain?
“Limits to Growth”
“Attractiveness Principle”
“Shifting the Burden”
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

11. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ3: What are the effects on upstream food supply chain actors, if a “no zero burden” approach to food waste creation is undertaken (Ilic et al., 2018)?
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

12. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ3: What are the effects on upstream food supply chain actors, if a “no zero burden” approach to food waste creation is undertaken (Ilic et al., 2018)?
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

13. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ4: How can any barriers to CE-based food supply chains be overcome – i.e. the so-called FOSAT set of barriers (financial, operational, structural, attitudinal, and technological as defined by Ritzen and Sandstrom (2017));
Ledger of
transactions
Decentralised
network
Verification
Immutable
Consensus
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

14. Research Questions – food waste + CE
RQ5: How can food waste ownership, behaviours and structural elements – including cause, effect, lifecycle, actor and zero burden variables - be included in CE business models (Urbinati et al., 2017) as part of a chain-wide validation mechanism to minimise food waste across inner and out loops – i.e. using a blockchain approach (Hackius and Petersen, 2017).
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

15. Putting it all together…
Financial / Technological
Structural
Operational
Attitudinal
Material Costs
Design
Responsibility
SCM
Identification
Extraction
Integration
Information
No “Zero Burden”
Manufacture
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter

16. Thank You! Questions @amsharif amsharif@bradford.ac.uk
16 November, November, 2018
Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present, Future,
17th – 19th June 2018, University of Exeter