Bradshaw, C orcid.org/0000-0002-3917-9250 (2018) Waste Law and the Value of Food. Journal of Environmental Law, 30 (2). pp. 311-331. ISSN 0952-8873
Abstract
This article explores the role of law in an emerging consensus as to the causes of food waste: a structural failure to value food. Food waste’s legal home is waste law. The sagacity of this siting would appear to be self-evident. If there is a body of law concerned with the problem of waste generally, then why not use that body of law to address the challenges of a particular waste stream? We should test this assumption, acknowledging food’s importance and difference as a resource, and keeping in mind structural causes of food waste. This article explores the limitations of waste law through an imbalance in support for anaerobic digestion over redistribution; an imbalance which actively removes edible food from the food supply chain. By underpinning and validating this imbalance, waste law reflects and reinforces structural causes of food waste, rather than providing the analytical tools needed to address the problem.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Environmental Law following peer review. The version of record Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 30, Issue 2, 1 July 2018, Pages 311–331 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqy009. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2018 09:59 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/jel/eqy009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135701 |