Sustainable bread waste management model from bakery retail, consumer, and food bank in developing country
List of Authors
  • Ellisha Nasruddin , Kartikasari Gunawan

Keyword
  • Bread Waste Management, Bakery Multi-Actors, Actor-Network Theory, Sustainable Model, Developing Country

Abstract
  • Bread waste negatively impacts the environment and has the most potential economic loss compared to other types of food. Bread waste is caused by surplus bakery products that cannot be managed well and turn into un-edible food called waste. Meanwhile, there are still lots of people in hunger. This study aims to discover the practices and obstacles faced by retailers, consumers, and the food bank in preventing bread waste. This study also explores the interconnection of human and non-human actors that appeared in the retailers, consumers, and the food bank in preventing surplus food turns into waste. This research uses qualitative methods to answer the research questions. An in-depth interview was conducted by inviting the bakery owners and operational managers, bakery product consumers, and the food bank in Surabaya to participate as informants for this research. This research elaborates on the bread waste management practices and obstacles of bakery multi-actors from the bakery retail, consumer, and foodbank. Both human actors and non-human actors related to the retailers, consumers, and the food bank hold important roles in deciding on managing the surplus bread and preventing it into a waste. Therefore, connection and interrelation among human and non-human actors in food waste management are highly recommended and needed. Moreover, this study elaborates on the importance of necessary interconnection by multi-actors to prevent bread waste in the form of a sustainable model. This research contributes to research on Actor-Network Theory for the sustainable management of surplus bread from the bakery retail and customers with the help of the food bank in Surabaya. Actor-network theory relates to human and non-human actors and their interconnection. It is a multi-complex relation among heterogeneous connections.

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