Principles in DKI Jakarta: Lessons Learned from Dutch Business Schools Management
8.7 Conclusions
Universities can play an important role in shaping future business leaders to become active in the path towards sustainability by acting as a green university. However, in order to embed the concepts of circularity and sustainability, there is a need to expand the concept of green university to include broader aspects and be approached as a continuous process rather than seen as a short-/long-term goal.
It is clear that Indonesian universities are far behind the Dutch ones in terms of circular sustainability (green university) practices. The Indonesian universities are still focused more on the narrow approach, whereas in the Dutch case, there is a holistic philosophical approach referring to sustainability not as part of an environmental movement but rather as a way of life. There are many reasons and circumstances involved, though this study was limited to the managerial approach to grasp the concept of green university and how the university leaders decide to include it through the green university criteria.
Table 8.4 (continued)
Barriers Proposed solutions
The inconsistency of individual culture and attitude towards sustainability
Creating a sustainability culture
The recent initiatives to foster change among students and staffs have not yet indicated strong effect
The transdisciplinary research has not strongly developed Procurement has not yet considered as important factor
Adopting sustainable procurement Valorisation has not yet become
a vocal point
Embedding the circular sustainability into the whole university system including valorisation
To institutionalise the green university principles, it was found that that univer- sity leaders need to ensure the continuity of a clear institutional vision which needs to be instrumented with specific policy strategies in a holistic approach. This can be seen as a first step towards implementing circular practices at all levels.
Although this study was centred on the circularity and sustainability practices at only three leading business schools in Jakarta, it is able to provide significant empir- ical information on how the Indonesian educational systems at university level per- ceive and practise those concepts within their system. It also offers a new definition of green university, as well as suggests a general framework. This suggested frame- work can be used in further investigation and follow-up research, potentially pro- viding a guidance towards the Indonesian university transition.
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Share, Optimise, Closed-Loop for Food Waste (SOL4FoodWaste): The Case of Walmart-Mexico
John Rincón-Moreno, María-Laura Franco-García, Jorge Carlos Carpio- Aguilar, and Mauricio Hernández-Sarabia
Abstract The food waste in landfill decomposes into contaminated run-off (leach- ate) and methane (CH4), which is considered a relevant greenhouse gas. This causes environmental liabilities, energy losses and problems in the food system. Currently, organic waste volumes are increasing dramatically converting this into a serious concern in both developed and developing countries. Zero waste to landfill (ZWTL) is one of the most promising concepts for solving organic waste problems. ZWTL when integrated into business processes can lead to innovative ways to identify, prevent and reduce waste. In that sense, the circular economy (CE) has also been considered regularly as an approach to the more appropriate waste management as it considers the business strategy part of the zero waste system. This circularity would increase productivity throughout the food value chain. In that manner, retail stores are proven to be a major market-driven force in the food system. Hence, one retail store located in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City, part of Walmart-Mexico (Walmex), was selected to showcase a suitable strategy to tackle the food waste issue. Thus, this research aimed to explore how the organic waste management can be improved by combining CE business model and a ZWTL strategy. The findings of the combined framework (SOL4FoodWaste) showed that most of the food con- sidered as waste can be recovered through different stages. Even further, 40% of the
J. Rincón-Moreno (*)
University of Twente, alumni, Enschede, The Netherlands M.-L. Franco-García
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
J. C. Carpio-Aguilar
Walmart Mexico, CDMX, Mexico e-mail: [email protected] M. Hernández-Sarabia
Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia e-mail: [email protected]
food waste management costs can be saved through three business actions associ- ated to those recovery stages. The proposed SOL4FoodWaste framework intends to collect all the sustainable concepts that might potentially be implemented or resem- bled in other industries with similar food waste challenges.
Keywords Organic waste management · Zero waste to landfill · Food waste hierarchy · Circular economy · ReSOLVE framework · SOL4FoodWaste