Zero waste in Los Angeles: Is the emperor wearing any clothes?

Murphy, Sinnott; Pincetl, Stéphanie

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.09.012

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“…The discourse and community of zero waste in the respective theoretical nurture and actual participation in waste activism, denotes a rejection and stark disassociation from the entrenched role of traditional waste management, as an enabler of the economic primacy given to consumption and capitalist growth models [3,72]. Even before encountering any of the numerous actual practical barriers to influencing "modes of governance", the word couple-zero and waste, directly contests the embedded connotation of waste, relative to the dominant political rhetoric and reality [3,72,79,113].…”

Section: Current and Future Cities: A Crucible Of Issues-a Milieu Formentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Zero waste discourse argues for shifting beyond a techno-centric, "end of pipe" focus, predicated on disposal [3,5], into a more values based (including those of indigenous peoples), ethical approach, which recognises the human centred, sociological basis of waste [200][201][202][203]. In a zero waste construct, this includes refocussing on the criticality of consumer-producer responsibility [1,15,26,113,204,205] and community participation and leadership [68,82].…”

Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This aspiration is expressed in the ideal of seeking to "eliminate", rather than forever just managing waste, as discarded material flow preordained for disposal [161,213,214]. Zero waste seeks to reimagine the default setting by which waste is inevitably characterised a "problem" (i.e., something to be quickly gotten rid of) into being reconceptualised, as a "resource" framed opportunity to be exploited [6,72,113].…”

Section: Who-how-what-why: Zero Waste?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alongside extending and formalising producer responsibility and revising legislation to support recovery and recycling vs disposal (including for waste material flow data) [113], the transition to a cradle-to-cradle-zero waste economic model, also requires transformation in our concept of citizenship, globally, so as to include sustainable and responsible patterns of purchase and consumption [1,17]. In this modality, traditional "end of pipe" waste management will be reshaped by the new environmental services demanded by closed-loop recovery and recycling systems.…”

Section: Who-how-what-why: Zero Waste?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Hannon

Zaman

2018

Urban Science

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Abstract: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.

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Section: Current and Future Cities: A Crucible Of Issues-a Milieu Formentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Who-how-what-why: Zero Waste?mentioning

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Section: Who-how-what-why: Zero Waste?mentioning

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Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Hannon

Zaman

2018

Urban Science

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“…The Zero Waste strategy is characterised by a circular material fl ow, which means the same material is repeatedly used. Within the Zero Waste system, no material is le unused (Connet, 2013a;Murphy and Pincetl, 2013). One of the principal goals of the Zero Waste strategy is the reduction of landfi lls and no waste incineration without energy recovery (Wen et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Zero Waste; Energy Recovery From Non-recyclable Mixed Municipal Waste

Laštůvka¹,

Vítěz²,

Chovanec³

et al. 2016

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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Zero Waste is a strategy off ering waste management solutions for today's businesses. The Zero Waste strategy has been created with the objective of stimulating sustainable utilisation of resources, production and consumption with the highest possible level of recycling of generated waste. Due to the fact that currently there is very little information and only few relevant data available as a base for the implementation of the Zero Waste strategy, waste management specialists approach and apply such a strategy in diff erent manners. On the other hand, there are areas of waste management where such a strategy has already been applied on a long-term basis in spite of non-existing relevant legislative tools. Indicators determined in the Zero Waste strategy may be achieved only if the individual countries clearly defi ne legislative environment and adopt a national Zero Waste strategy with achievable objectives unambiguously determined. The area of waste separation, or handling of fractions of waste non-utilisable as secondary materials a er separation, is one of the areas directly connected to the Zero Waste strategy. The objective of this paper is the evaluation of the usage of fractions of waste non-utilisable as secondary materials for energy recovery, providing thus valuable knowledge and information for the implementation of the Zero Waste strategy.

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Positioning infrastructure and technologies for low‐carbon urbanization

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The expected urbanization of the planet in the coming century coupled with aging infrastructure in developed regions, increasing complexity of man-made systems, and pressing climate change impacts have created opportunities for reassessing the role of infrastructure and technologies in cities and how they contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Modern urbanization is predicated on complex, increasingly coupled infrastructure systems, and energy use continues to be largely met from fossil fuels. Until energy infrastructures evolve away from carbon-based fuels, GHG emissions are critically tied to the urbanization process. Further complicating the challenge of decoupling urban growth from GHG emissions are lock-in effects and interdependencies. This paper synthesizes state-of-the-art thinking for transportation, fuels, buildings, water, electricity, and waste systems and finds that GHG emissions assessments tend to view these systems as static and isolated from social and institutional systems. Despite significant understanding of methods and technologies for reducing infrastructure-related GHG emissions, physical, institutional, and cultural constraints continue to work against us, pointing to knowledge gaps that must be addressed. This paper identifies three challenge themes to improve our understanding of the role of infrastructure and technologies in urbanization processes and position these increasingly complex systems for low-carbon growth. The challenges emphasize how we can reimagine the role of infrastructure in the future and how people, institutions, and ecological systems interface with infrastructure.

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Zero waste in Los Angeles: Is the emperor wearing any clothes?

Cited by 44 publications

References 19 publications

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Zero Waste; Energy Recovery From Non-recyclable Mixed Municipal Waste

Positioning infrastructure and technologies for low‐carbon urbanization

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