How to Sustain Sustainable Practices? The Journey Toward Zero Waste Lifestyle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2237302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fanny Reniou (0000-0002-0067-3753, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Elisa Robert-Monnot (0000-0002-2822-4204, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), C A Russell (0000-0002-1918-6381, Pepperdine University) |
| Editors | Markus Giesler, Ashlee Humphreys |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1274-1303 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Consumer Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-5301 • E-ISSN: 1537-5277 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcr/ucaf028 |
| OpenAlex | W4409783567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 102 |
Sustaining sustainable practices in a market whose infrastructure continues to prioritize unsustainable options is not easy. It becomes even more challenging when living sustainably involves interwoven practices that are deeply embedded and interconnected. We focus on one such system of sustainable practices and explore consumers' journey toward Zero Waste lifestyle-a system of practices that is not yet institutionalized. Using a qualitative multimethod approach and a practice-theoretical lens, this research uncovers the iterative process through which this system of practices develops around the Zero Waste meta-meaning, a driving force common to all associated practices. Our analysis reveals a set of adaptive capabilities that enable carriers of these practices to gradually develop and stabilize the interwoven system that scaffolds the Zero Waste lifestyle. The gradual institutionalization of this system of practices requires a mutualization of capabilities among carriers who share a common meta-meaning. By examining the maintenance of sustainable practices through a practice-theoretical lens, this research offers new ways to encourage and promote the transition toward more sustainable lifestyles
Business · Food waste · Waste management · Zero (linguistics) · Zero emission · Zero waste · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Marketing · Philosophy · Psychology
Social Practices
The Nexus of Practices
The Design of Everyday Life
The Long Interview
Social Change in a Material World
Dynamic capabilities
Understanding of consumer behaviour as a prerequisite for environmental protection
How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable
Longitudinal Research
Why Ethical Consumers Don’t Walk Their Talk
Experiences of pride, not guilt, predict pro-environmental behavior when pro-environmental descriptive norms are more positive
Green Claims and Message Frames
The Role of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness in Motivating Environmentally Conscious Behaviors
A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation
How May Consumer Policy Empower Consumers for Sustainable Lifestyles?
Explicating dynamic capabilities
Temporal construal.
Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera
Visual anthropology
Institutions and Agency in the Sustainability of Day-to-Day Consumption Practices
Package-free products
Values, personality traits, and packaging‐free shopping
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Theories of practice and public health
Performing zero waste
The practice of household waste minimisation
Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyles and Energy Conservation
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
Recruitment and Reproduction
The Evolutionary Bases for Sustainable Behavior
Consumption and Theories of Practice
The Spoken and the Unspoken
Introspection in Consumer Research
Researcher Introspection as a Method in Consumer Research
Situated Learning
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
How Do Unsustainable Practices Remain Dominant? A Practice Theory Reinterpretation of Gramsci
The Best Laid Plans
Will the Consistent Organic Food Consumer Step Forward? An Empirical Analysis
Routines Disrupted
Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
Paper Meets Plastic
Tensions in the Enactment of Neoliberal Consumer Responsibilization for Waste
Practice Diffusion
Assimilating and Differentiating
Timeflow
The Marketization of Religion
Creating the Responsible Consumer
Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble
Frustrated Fatshionistas
Purifying Practices
Taste Regimes and Market-Mediated Practice
Is Planning Good for You? The Differential Impact of Planning on Self-Regulation
Semiotic Structure and the Legitimation of Consumption Practices
A Room with a Viewpoint
Pursuing Parenthood
Yielding to Temptation
Lifestyle of the Tight and Frugal
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |