Zero-Waste: Reconsidering Waste Management for the Future (Routledge Studies in Waste Management and Policy)

Synopsis

This book analyses ‘zero-waste’ (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA, this book explores why urban waste management systems still remain a major challenge for almost all cities around the world. Rejecting waste as an ‘end-of-life’ problem, Atiq Zaman and Tahmina Ahsan instead consider waste prevention through the ZW model, in which resources are utilized and consumed with minimum environmental degradation. In addition, the authors give extended discussion on why embracing the ZW concept will be beneficial for the circular economy (CE). Providing a strategic zero-waste framework and an evaluation tool to measure waste management performance aimed towards ZW goals, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and policymakers with an interest in waste management, sustainable consumption, urban planning, and sustainable development.

Copyright:

2020

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ISBN-13:

9781315436272

Related ISBNs:

9781315436296, 9781138219090, 9781138219090, 9781138219083, 9781138219083

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/20/19

Copyrighted By:

Atiq Zaman and Tahmina Ahsan. The right of Atiq Zaman and Tahmina Ahsan to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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