Team:Edinburgh/Human Practices

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Human Practices

     The cheapest and easiest waste management strategies for our focus wastes are currently incineration or landfilling[1]. However, such practises reinforce the unsustainable “take-make-waste extractive industrial model”[2] and often cause harmful environmental pollution. To support future generations living on this Earth, we must re-design our economy in a more circular model so that economic growth maintains and regenerates productive eco-systems, rather than exploiting them and causing environmental damage (Figure 1). Our human practises team evaluated the practicality of implementing our suggested application for waste management, considering possible impacts on markets, society and evaluating the economic feasibility and environmental sustainability.


Circular economy diagram

Figure 1 Principles of a circular economy Reference source UNIDO 2017, online at: https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/Circular_Economy_UNIDO_0.pdf


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Circular bioeconomy

Here we discuss the socio-economic impacts of our project in the context of the circular economy

Stakeholder engagement

Here we present what we learnt from interviews with potential stakeholders






Entrepreneurship

Here we present the options for making our project into a feasible economic venture

Sustainability

Here we explain how our project contributes to the UN Sustainable development goals




References
  1. 1. Zaman AU (2016) A comprehensive study of the environmental and economic benefits of resource recovery from global waste management systems. J. Clean. Prod. 124: 41–50
  2. 2. Ellen MacArthur foundation (2019) CITIES AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR FOOD

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