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Sue Taelman
Research Group Sustainable Systems Engineering (STEN), Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

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Journal article
Published: 23 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Food wastage is an environmental concern worldwide, particularly regarding households. This study aims to identify household food wasting segments and to assess the relationship between both consumer and food product determinants and the identified segments. Data were collected through a consumer survey of several packaged chicken products (n = 256; 2019) in a retail setting in Belgium. Of the participants, 36% reported never wasting any chicken meat. The average waste percentages were small, 1.1–3.1%, depending on the packaged product, although they were not significantly different between products. Participants with low levels of self-reported chicken waste were significantly older, without children and/or unemployed. Moreover, their households scored better for household routines and skills. They also agreed more to intend not to waste food, experienced a stronger injunctive norm and perceived consumer effectiveness. Additionally, lower chicken product wastage was discovered for households purchasing organic products and products with both a lower food convenience grade and shorter shelf life. Some relationships between household wastage and food product determinants contrast with expectations based on literature. The cause can be that some determinants are more related to food wasting (e.g., when participants buy organic products) than others (e.g., the products’ shelf life).

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Margot Cooreman-Algoed; Fien Minnens; Lieselot Boone; Kyara Botterman; Sue Taelman; Wim Verbeke; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Yung Hung; Jo Dewulf. Consumer and Food Product Determinants of Food Wasting: A Case Study on Chicken Meat. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7027 .

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Margot Cooreman-Algoed, Fien Minnens, Lieselot Boone, Kyara Botterman, Sue Taelman, Wim Verbeke, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Yung Hung, Jo Dewulf. Consumer and Food Product Determinants of Food Wasting: A Case Study on Chicken Meat. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7027.

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Margot Cooreman-Algoed; Fien Minnens; Lieselot Boone; Kyara Botterman; Sue Taelman; Wim Verbeke; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Yung Hung; Jo Dewulf. 2021. "Consumer and Food Product Determinants of Food Wasting: A Case Study on Chicken Meat." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7027.

Journal article
Published: 30 December 2020 in European Spatial Research and Policy
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In 2016, the Flemish Government adopted the transversal policy paper “Vision 2050, a long term strategy for Flanders”. It has set the ambition for Flanders for 2050 and has paved the way for a transition to a Circular Economy. It provided new objectives and confirmed the ambition to further reduce the total amount of (residual) waste by closing the loop and reducing the use of primary resources. More than before, prevention and reuse have been an integral part of materials management. The impact of waste behaviour needs to be measured against environmental and social priorities. In this context, the REPAiR project developed a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary methodology. Building on this methodology, this paper explores how governance in Flanders and Ghent has been affected by this transition and draws lessons to address these challenges.

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Arianne Acke; Sue Ellen Taelman; Jo Dewulf. A multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach to waste management and circular economy: The case of Flanders and Ghent, Belgium. European Spatial Research and Policy 2020, 27, 43 -57.

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Arianne Acke, Sue Ellen Taelman, Jo Dewulf. A multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach to waste management and circular economy: The case of Flanders and Ghent, Belgium. European Spatial Research and Policy. 2020; 27 (2):43-57.

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Arianne Acke; Sue Ellen Taelman; Jo Dewulf. 2020. "A multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach to waste management and circular economy: The case of Flanders and Ghent, Belgium." European Spatial Research and Policy 27, no. 2: 43-57.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2020 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Assessing the sustainability of waste management systems (WMSs) is key to reduce the impacts incurred by human activities. The article presents the development of an operational sustainability framework for the assessment of WMSs involving stakeholders and experts from different fields. The operational framework presented achieves comprehensiveness by including multidisciplinary impacts (environmental, social, and economic impacts), accounting for spatial differentiation regarding the occurrence and magnitude of the impacts (local to global) and complementing well-established methods in life cycle assessment (LCA) with local impact assessment methods. In this respect, the assessment of social local impacts (e.g., Odour, Landscape Disamenities), which has so far received little attention in the literature, has been included. The procedure for the definition of the operational framework is described in detail, including the selection of the impact categories and associated indicators. Finally, an aggregation method was defined considering the perception of stakeholders, allowing for aggregating the impact in five areas of protection (Prosperity, Human Well-Being, Human Health, Ecosystem Health and Natural Resources).

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Sue Taelman; David Sanjuan-Delmás; Davide Tonini; Jo Dewulf. An operational framework for sustainability assessment including local to global impacts: Focus on waste management systems. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2020, 162, 104964 .

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Sue Taelman, David Sanjuan-Delmás, Davide Tonini, Jo Dewulf. An operational framework for sustainability assessment including local to global impacts: Focus on waste management systems. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2020; 162 ():104964.

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Sue Taelman; David Sanjuan-Delmás; Davide Tonini; Jo Dewulf. 2020. "An operational framework for sustainability assessment including local to global impacts: Focus on waste management systems." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 162, no. : 104964.

Journal article
Published: 26 June 2018 in Sustainability
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Waste management represents a challenge for public authorities due to many reasons such as increased waste generation following urban population growth, economic burdens imposed on the municipal budget, and nuisances inevitably caused to the environment and local inhabitants. To optimize the system from a sustainability perspective, moving the transition towards a more circular economy, a better understanding of the different stages of waste management is necessary. A review of recently developed sustainability frameworks for waste management showed that no single framework captures all the instruments needed to ultimately provide a solid basis for comprehensive analyses of the potential burdens associated with urban waste management. Bearing this limitation in mind, the objective of this research is to propose a conceptual and comprehensive sustainability framework to support decision-making in waste management of European cities. The framework comprises a combination of methods capable of identifying future strategies and scenarios, to assess different types of impacts based on a life cycle perspective, and considers the value of waste streams, the actors involved, and possible constraints of implementing scenarios. The social, economic, environmental, technical and political domains are covered, and special attention is paid to impacts affecting foremost the local population.

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Sue Taelman; Davide Tonini; Alexander Wandl; Jo Dewulf. A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2184 .

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Sue Taelman, Davide Tonini, Alexander Wandl, Jo Dewulf. A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (7):2184.

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Sue Taelman; Davide Tonini; Alexander Wandl; Jo Dewulf. 2018. "A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development." Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2184.

Journal article
Published: 23 January 2016 in Science of The Total Environment
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Terrestrial land and its resources are finite, though, for economic and socio-cultural needs of humans, these natural resources are further exploited. It highlights the need to quantify the impact humans possibly have on the environment due to occupation and transformation of land. As a starting point of this paper (1st objective), the land use activities, which may be mainly socio-culturally or economically oriented, are identified in addition to the natural land-based processes and stocks and funds that can be altered due to land use. To quantify the possible impact anthropogenic land use can have on the natural environment, linked to a certain product or service, life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool commonly used. During the last decades, many indicators are developed within the LCA framework in an attempt to evaluate certain environmental impacts of land use. A second objective of this study is to briefly review these indicators and to categorize them according to whether they assess a change in the asset of natural resources for production and consumption or a disturbance of certain ecosystem processes, i.e. ecosystem health. Based on these findings, two enhanced proxy indicators are proposed (3rd objective). Both indicators use net primary production (NPP) loss (potential NPP in the absence of humans minus remaining NPP after land use) as a relevant proxy to primarily assess the impact of land use on ecosystem health. As there are two approaches to account for the natural and productive value of the NPP remaining after land use, namely the Human Appropriation of NPP (HANPP) and hemeroby (or naturalness) concepts, two indicators are introduced and the advantages and limitations compared to state-of-the-art NPP-based land use indicators are discussed. Exergy-based spatially differentiated characterization factors (CFs) are calculated for several types of land use (e.g., pasture land, urban land).

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Sue Ellen Taelman; Thomas Schaubroeck; Steven De Meester; Lieselot Boone; Jo Dewulf. Accounting for land use in life cycle assessment: The value of NPP as a proxy indicator to assess land use impacts on ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment 2016, 550, 143 -156.

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Sue Ellen Taelman, Thomas Schaubroeck, Steven De Meester, Lieselot Boone, Jo Dewulf. Accounting for land use in life cycle assessment: The value of NPP as a proxy indicator to assess land use impacts on ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment. 2016; 550 ():143-156.

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Sue Ellen Taelman; Thomas Schaubroeck; Steven De Meester; Lieselot Boone; Jo Dewulf. 2016. "Accounting for land use in life cycle assessment: The value of NPP as a proxy indicator to assess land use impacts on ecosystems." Science of The Total Environment 550, no. : 143-156.

Book chapter
Published: 20 November 2015 in Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products
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Algae are a very rich type of biomass and offer great potential as an ingredient for the chemical, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, energy and food or feed industry. Algae can also play an important role in waste stream mitigation. However, the development of algal biomass production technology faces several technical, economic and environmental barriers; especially, efforts to achieve a large-scale business are necessary to increase the biomass productivity and reduce the energy consumption, fresh water use and atmospheric emissions. To aim for a sustainable production process, it seems that algae cultivation should be integrated in a biorefinery.

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Sue Ellen Taelman; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. Algae as Promising Biofeedstock; Searching for Sustainable Production Processes and Market Applications. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products 2015, 289 -305.

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Sue Ellen Taelman, Steven De Meester, Jo Dewulf. Algae as Promising Biofeedstock; Searching for Sustainable Production Processes and Market Applications. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products. 2015; ():289-305.

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Sue Ellen Taelman; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. 2015. "Algae as Promising Biofeedstock; Searching for Sustainable Production Processes and Market Applications." Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products , no. : 289-305.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2015 in Algal Research
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Sue Ellen Taelman; Jennifer Champenois; Maeve D. Edwards; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of two seaweed cultivation systems in North West Europe with a focus on quantifying sea surface occupation. Algal Research 2015, 11, 173 -183.

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Sue Ellen Taelman, Jennifer Champenois, Maeve D. Edwards, Steven De Meester, Jo Dewulf. Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of two seaweed cultivation systems in North West Europe with a focus on quantifying sea surface occupation. Algal Research. 2015; 11 ():173-183.

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Sue Ellen Taelman; Jennifer Champenois; Maeve D. Edwards; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. 2015. "Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of two seaweed cultivation systems in North West Europe with a focus on quantifying sea surface occupation." Algal Research 11, no. : 173-183.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2015 in Bioresource Technology
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The environmental sustainability of aquaculture wastewater treatment by microalgal bacterial flocs (MaB-flocs) in an outdoor raceway pond was analyzed using life cycle assessment. Pikeperch aquaculture wastewater treated at pilot scale (Belgium; 28m(2)) and industrial scale (hypothetical up-scaling; 41 ponds of 245m(2)) were compared. The integration of the MaB-floc raceway pond in a broader aquaculture waste treatment system was studied, comparing the valorisation of MaB-flocs as shrimp feed and as biogas. Up-scaling improves the resource footprint of the plant (848MJex,CEENEkg(-1) MaB-floc TSS at pilot scale and 277MJex,CEENEkg(-1) MaB-floc TSS at industrial scale) as well as its carbon footprint and eutrophication potential. At industrial scale, the valorisation of MaB-flocs as shrimp feed is overall more sustainable than as biogas but improvements should be made to reduce the energy use of the MaB-floc raceway pond, especially by improving the energy-efficiency of the pond stirring system.

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Sophie Sfez; Sofie Van Den Hende; Sue Ellen Taelman; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. Environmental sustainability assessment of a microalgae raceway pond treating aquaculture wastewater: From up-scaling to system integration. Bioresource Technology 2015, 190, 321 -331.

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Sophie Sfez, Sofie Van Den Hende, Sue Ellen Taelman, Steven De Meester, Jo Dewulf. Environmental sustainability assessment of a microalgae raceway pond treating aquaculture wastewater: From up-scaling to system integration. Bioresource Technology. 2015; 190 ():321-331.

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Sophie Sfez; Sofie Van Den Hende; Sue Ellen Taelman; Steven De Meester; Jo Dewulf. 2015. "Environmental sustainability assessment of a microalgae raceway pond treating aquaculture wastewater: From up-scaling to system integration." Bioresource Technology 190, no. : 321-331.