Responses to Food Waste in a Sharing Economy- We have fully transitioned to a participatory culture, and digital technology is key driver of that transition

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Abstract

The article discusses on the needs to find solutions to waste in general and to food waste in particular in a legal perspective. The analysis starts with some reflections on the need to refresh the expressions used in this new area of research, as well as to coin new terms that might support the legal scholarship and the policy makers.

A relevant part of the work is dedicated to the analysis of virtuous models of sustainable development, where three key elements play a pivotal role: the mechanisms of a sharing economy, the new actors in curbing consumerism and waste; the participatory dynamics governing their actions.