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October 03-04, 2019 | Melbourne, Australia
Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling | Volume: 02
Waste Management in the circular economy with a nexes approach
J D Seconna
Environmental Leadership Academy, South Africa
Circular economy systems retain the added value in products
for as long as possible and eliminate waste.
They keep resources within the economy when a product has
reached the end of its life so that they can be productively
used again multiple times, hence, creating further various
reasons for why we need a circular economy. Among them
are increasing population and urbanisation, which are
often accompanied by increasing demand on products and
services. When we consume more, there is also a higher
rate of waste generation. By 2025 global solid waste volumes
are projected to increase from 1.3 to 2.2 billion tonnes.
Additionally, resource scarcity and the increasing difficulty to
extract natural resources further drive the move from a linear
to a circular economy. The paradigm shift means looking at
wastes as resources and saving primary resources, altogether
moving to circular flow schemes.
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