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Jagdeep Singh. Foto.

Jagdeep Singh

Researcher

Jagdeep Singh. Foto.

Progress and challenges to the global waste management system

Author

  • Jagdeep Singh
  • Rafael Laurenti
  • Rajib Sinha
  • Björn Frostell

Summary, in English

Rapid economic growth, urbanization and increasing population have caused (materially intensive) resource consumption to increase, and consequently the release of large amounts of waste to the environment. From a global perspective, current waste and resource management lacks a holistic approach covering the whole chain of product design, raw material extraction, production, consumption, recycling and waste management. In this article, progress and different sustainability challenges facing the global waste management system are presented and discussed. The study leads to the conclusion that the current, rather isolated efforts, in different systems for waste management, waste reduction and resource management are indeed not sufficient in a long term sustainability perspective. In the future, to manage resources and wastes sustainably, waste management requires a more systems-oriented approach that addresses the root causes for the problems. A specific issue to address is the development of improved feedback information (statistics) on how waste generation is linked to consumption.

Publishing year

2014-01-01

Language

English

Pages

800-812

Publication/Series

Waste Management and Research

Volume

32

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Environmental Management

Keywords

  • Global challenges
  • resource management
  • root causes
  • systems approach
  • wastes

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0734-242X