Zero-Waste: Reconsidering Waste Management for the Future [Paperback]

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.

Introduction: zero-waste and beyond Part 1: The anatomy of zero-waste: zero-waste and beyond  Chapter 1: Background of waste management system  Chapter 2: Plastics and the throwaway society  Chapter 3: Production, consumption, and waste management: the missing link  Chapter 4: Zero-waste in urban system  Part 2: Case studies of zero-waste  Chapter 5: Zero-waste practices in our society  Chapter 6: Zero-ewaste  Chapter 7: The whole house reuse project  Chapter 8: Zero-waste in the global cities  Part 3: Zero-waste strategy and tool  Chapter 9: Zero-waste strategy  Chapter lóe