Urban organic waste streams

The document introduces a framework designed to evaluate the environmental and social benefits and trade-offs of circular economy approaches to urban organic waste. Developed through literature reviews and stakeholder interviews, the framework allows for sustainability assessments even with limited data. When applied to Naivasha, Kenya, the framework identified potential benefits including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved natural resource efficiency, and job creation, alongside risks such as negative impacts on worker health and smallholder farmers.

• The proposed framework for assessing resource recovery from organic waste streams was developed by combining aspects of existing frameworks from a literature review and incorporating insights from stakeholder interviews to enable a broad sustainability assessment.
• Application of the framework to Naivasha, Kenya, suggests that increased circularity in organic waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create jobs, and improve natural resource usage, but may also negatively affect smallholder farmers and the health of workers in recovery facilities.
• The framework is capable of providing policy-relevant insights for circular economy implementation during early planning stages, even when data availability is low.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Urban organic waste streams. https://www.sei.org/publications/urban-organic-waste-streams/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Urban organic waste streams. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/urban-organic-waste-streams/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022urban, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Urban organic waste streams}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/urban-organic-waste-streams/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }