Sustainable waste management approach: A paradigm shift towards zero waste into landfills

2022 ◽  
pp. 381-395
Author(s):  
Saurabh Shukla ◽  
Ramsha Khan
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Zero Waste

scholarly journals Sustainable waste management for zero waste cities in China: potential, challenges and opportunities

Clean Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-201
Author(s):  
Roh Pin Lee ◽  
Bernd Meyer ◽  
Qiuliang Huang ◽  
Raoul Voss
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Chemical Recycling ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Mechanical Recycling ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Carbon Economy ◽  
Secondary Carbon

Abstract Waste is a valuable secondary carbon resource. In the linear economy, it is predominantly landfilled or incinerated. These disposal routes not only lead to diverse climate, environmental and societal problems; they also represent a loss of carbon resources. In a circular carbon economy, waste is used as a secondary carbon feedstock to replace fossil resources for production. This contributes to environmental protection and resource conservation. It furthermore increases a nation’s independence from imported fossil energy sources. China is at the start of its transition from a linear to circular carbon economy. It can thus draw on waste management experiences of other economies and assess the opportunities for transference to support its development of ‘zero waste cities’. This paper has three main focuses. First is an assessment of drivers for China’s zero waste cities initiative and the approaches that have been implemented to combat its growing waste crisis. Second is a sharing of Germany’s experience—a forerunner in the implementation of the waste hierarchy (reduce–reuse–recycle–recover–landfill) with extensive experience in circular carbon technologies—in sustainable waste management. Last is an identification of transference opportunities for China’s zero waste cities. Specific transference opportunities identified range from measures to promote waste prevention, waste separation and waste reduction, generating additional value via mechanical recycling, implementing chemical recycling as a recycling option before energy recovery to extending energy recovery opportunities.

scholarly journals Toward integrated and sustainable waste management system in University of Malaya: UM zero waste campaign

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 04007
Author(s):  
Sumiani Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management System ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Waste Management System

With the escalated increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in Malaysia reaching a shocking 38,000 ton/day in 2017, a sustainable waste management system is much desired. Nationwide, there are 176 landfills but only 8 are sanitary landfill with the rest are open dumpsites. In the campus of University of Malaya, UM Zero Waste Campaign (UM ZWC) was introduced in 2011 to start a long-term campaign to achieve an integrated and sustainable waste management model and ultimately a zero-waste campus. Since year 2015, UM ZWC is fully funded by Sustainability Science Research Cluster of UM (Susci) as one of the living labs of UM as well as by JPPHB under the RMK-11 budget. UM ZWC operating projects including in house composting center, food waste segregation scheme, research composting emission and waste characterization, anaerobic digestion (AD), used clothes collection program, wood waste separate collection, e-waste collection and drop-off recycling collection were initiated under the campaign. Since the inception of the project in 2011 until December 2017, almost over 620 tons of solid waste has been diverted from disposal in landfill with composting, AD, recycling, re-use and energy recovery. A roadmap of UM ZWC was drawn up in 2013, with a goal to achieve 60% landfill diversion by year 2040. In the next 5-10 years, UM ZWC plays a vital role to formalize the recycling collection in UM and further increase the organic waste recycling with green waste shredding and composting. Besides environmental benefits (pollution prevention and carbon emission reduction), UM ZWC brings various benefits such as academic research opportunities for UM, contribute in UM LCCF (Low carbon city framework) target and serve as platform to improve students soft skills and entrepreneur skill. Multi stakeholders participation, support form top management and industrial collaboration are the key factors that are able to drive the development of a sustainable waste management model in UM campus.

Taking the Perspectives of Future Generations as an Effective Method for Achieving Sustainable Waste Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpana Pandit ◽  
Yoshinori Nakagawa ◽  
Raja Rajendra Timilsina ◽  
Koji Kotani ◽  
Tatsuyoshi Saijo
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management

scholarly journals Pathways to sustainable waste management in Indian Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.R. Sankar Cheela ◽  
Ved Prakash Ranjan ◽  
Sudha Goel ◽  
Michele John ◽  
Brajesh Dubey
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management

scholarly journals Sustainable Waste Management Innovations in Africa: New Perspectives and Research Agenda for Improving Global Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6646
Author(s):  
Frederick Ahen ◽  
Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Incorrect Diagnosis ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Research Questions

The need for green business practices and green innovations underscores a growing recognition that climate change is now an existential threat not just to population health but also to the survival of businesses that are unable to embrace green practices with a sense of urgency. This paper contributes to the literature on market violence as an inhibitor of green innovations for sustainable waste management to curb the unneeded health effects of wastes in Africa. Our purpose is to problematize received wisdom, unquestioned assumptions, and incorrect diagnosis of the sources and health consequences of various forms of wastes in Africa. Much of the discourse on this issue remains ahistorical, and that risks leaving aside a vital question of exploitative extraction. By including this ‘out-of-the-box’ explanation through major case references, we are able to shed light on the critical issues that have hitherto received limited attention, thus enabling us to propose useful research questions for future enquiries. We propose a framework that delineates the structural composition of costs imposed by market violence that ranges from extraction to e-waste disposal. We advocate for the engineering of policies that create conditions for doing more with less resources, eliminating waste, and recycling as crucial steps in creating sustainable waste management innovations. Additionally, we highlight a set of fundamental issues regarding enablers and inhibitors of sustainable innovations and policies for waste management worth considering for future research. These include programmed obsolescence, irresponsible extraction, production, and consumption, all seen through the theoretical lens of market violence.

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