Author: Kara Rotermund ABSTRACT: Recycling is an industrial practice, operating within an open loop system. Before this method of waste reduction can function at its most efficient to successfully reduce carbon emissions and waste, we must examine our current model of production and alternative methods. Figure 14.1. Image credit: Worrell, E., & Reuter, M. (01/01/2014). … Continue reading 14.1 Waste: Recycling
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14.2 Waste: Waste Incineration to Energy
By Madeline Althouse ABSTRACT: In the linear economy, there are a few methods of waste disposal. Waste incineration to energy is often thought of as a ‘less bad’ alternative to landfill, where waste can be converted to power and heat. However, a look into the carbon footprint of incineration and the role it plays in … Continue reading 14.2 Waste: Waste Incineration to Energy
14.5 Waste: Circular Economy
Author: Nadia Kudritska ABSTRACT: Circular Economy is creating a closed loop system without waste. Image credit: Ellen MacArthur Foundation MAIN: Kenneth Boulding started with ‘open economy’ versus a ‘closed economy’. Later in 1989, David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner highlighted that linear-economics is designed to treat the environment as a dumping ground. As such, … Continue reading 14.5 Waste: Circular Economy
14.6 Waste: Zero Waste
Author: Havana Rodriguez Castro ABSTRACT: Zero waste is the conservation of all resources by all possible means, this includes in the production, consumption, and reuse of products and their packaging (Zero Waste Alliance, 2018). The Goal is ethical and economic efficiency. So, no it is not just recycling. It is a conscious change in lifestyle … Continue reading 14.6 Waste: Zero Waste
14.7 Waste: Food Packaging
Author: Lauren Kennedy ABSTRACT: The useless over-packaging of our food not only causes harm to the environment, but also to human health. MAIN As Earth's landfills and waterways become consumed and clogged with plastic bags, take out containers, straws, coffee cups and more; it is evident that food packaging has outweighed a number of other … Continue reading 14.7 Waste: Food Packaging
14.5 Waste: The Circular Economy
Circular economy is a model intending to produce sustainable development while increasing economic regrowth through methods such as reusing, repairing, repurposing, and recycling. In order to take items that are obsolete and create new resources. By Mikayla Densa