scholarly journals Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathon Hannon ◽  
Atiq Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Urban Metabolism ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Growing Body

The evolving phenomenon of zero waste encompasses the theory, practice, and learning of individuals, families, businesses, communities, and government organisations, responding to perceptions of crisis and failure around conventional waste management. The diverse and growing body of international zero waste experience, can be portrayed as both, an entirely new and alternative waste management paradigm, and or, interpreted as overlapping, extending, and synergetic with a general evolution towards more sustainable waste/resource management practices. Combining the terms zero and waste provokes creative, intellectual, and pragmatic tensions, which provide a contemporary axis for necessary debate and innovation in this sphere of resource management. This commentary draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and utilises some elements of the critique of zero waste, as a lens to examine and better understand this heterogeneous global community of practice. In particular, how the concept and implementation of a zero waste goal can increase community engagement and be a catalyst for the design and management of a more circular urban metabolism and hence, more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable future (zero waste) cities.

Zero Waste MSW Management Challenges in Klaipėda District

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Tumaševičiūtė ◽  
Aušra Zigmontienė
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Municipal Waste Management

Production volumes are increasing by growing economy and consumption processes. Industry and other economic activities generate municipal solid waste stream. With growth of the industry, economy and pace of consumption major key is to avoid municipal solid waste (MSW) generation. The majority of developing countries are seeking to alter the prevailing waste management practices and to adapt the concept of Zero Waste society. This study aims to provide guidance in Klaipėda district and gives an opportunity to become the first district in Lithuania, which provides an objective assessment of the public municipal waste management service area and identifies the real situation of the municipal waste management sector. This paper develops that the path towards Zero Waste society is essential for the approximation of the different waste treatment technologies. To achieve this objective is a difficult task because the solution requires a holistic approach to waste generation, collection, processing and disposal. The main conclusions of the study offers a major challenges faced by Klaipėda district of limited data quantifying and characterizing waste generation patterns also suggesting that “way to Zero Waste” society require renewed governmental leadership as well as founding of effective national regulatory framework to reduce waste generation or conserve resources.

Towards the circular economy: Analysis of barriers to implementation of Turkey’s zero waste management using the fuzzy DEMATEL method

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2098878
Author(s):  
Ejder Ayçin ◽  
Sema Kayapinar Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Fuzzy Dematel ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Zero waste has an important position in the circular economy model in terms of manufacturing recyclable products instead of products to be consumed quickly, reducing the amount of waste, developing and implementing recycling/reuse technologies, and thus ensuring resource efficiency. A zero-waste strategy is one of the basic steps to achieve the goal of the circular economy. The number of studies conducted on Turkey’s zero waste management strategies referring to the circular economy is quite limited. To fill this gap in the literature, this study aims to identify the potential barriers which have an important role in zero waste management practices in Turkey. Through a broad literature review and expert opinions, 12 key barriers for zero waste implementation in Turkey have been defined in view of circular economy principles. Then, fuzzy DEMATEL methodology is employed to examine which is the most influential barrier affecting zero waste management success and to identify the interdependence of these barriers. The results indicate that uncertainty of the goals and tactics relevant to the circular economy and lack of financial and economic aid are key causal barriers that affect Turkey’s zero waste management.

scholarly journals TREATING THE SYMPTOM: A MARXIST REFLECTION ON ‘ZERO WASTE’ AND SARDINIA 2019

Detritus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Marc Kalina
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Written as a reflection on Sardinia 2019, the purpose of this letter is to draw attention to a perceived failure within waste management studies to adequately engage with the socio-economic and socio-political conditions that drive the prodution of waste. By way of a solution, it proposes a return to Marxist dialectics and modes of anlaysis in order to reframe contemporary debates on waste management practices to include more critical discussion and engagement with the root causes of waste, specifically capitalist production and class- addressing the illness rather than merely treating the symptoms.

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