ABSTRACT
Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity. Resource recovery and the optimisation of material flow can only be achieved alongside and through behaviour change to reduce the creation of material waste and wasteful consumption. This book aims to develop a more robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, consumption, technologies and urban development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |7 pages
Introduction
part |103 pages
Zero waste, sustainability and behaviour change
chapter |24 pages
‘Somebody else's problem'
chapter |18 pages
Twenty-first-century life
chapter |14 pages
Young children and sustainable consumption
chapter |22 pages
Reducing wasteful household behaviours
chapter |23 pages
Collaborative consumption and the remaking of local resilience
part |93 pages
Zero Waste, Enabling Technologies and Consumption
chapter |16 pages
Getting Closer to Zero Waste in the New Mobile Communications Paradigm
chapter |25 pages
Living in Harmony with Wildlife
part |100 pages
Zero Waste in Sustainable Architecture and Design at the Household and Building Scale
chapter |38 pages
Sustainable Building Design and Systems Integration
part |87 pages
Zero Waste in Cities, Urban Governance and Material Flows