Dash, S and Kumar, T (2024) Towards Zero Waste: Strategies for Sustainable Waste Management in India. In: International Conference on Business and Technology, ICBT 2024, 19 April 2024through 20 April 2024, Cambridge, pp. 159-168.
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In developing countries, like India, the cities are choking up on waste and are facing major waste management challenges. Our �take-make-waste� economy is leading to the contamination and destruction of the natural resources that sustain us, pushing us past five of the nine planetary boundaries established to safeguard our planet. This paper focuses on India and delves into the complexities of waste generation, which impacts the environment. The problem statement that this paper addresses is the lack of awareness among individuals and the linear economy that fuels unsustainable consumption patterns. The methodology involves a literature review to understand the waste crisis and circular economy solutions, followed by the design and development of the framework and app. This paper proposes an app-based framework to solve these issues by empowering individuals to adopt zero-waste lifestyles and incorporating circular business models that promote strategies to reduce the environmental impact of waste which can significantly reduce waste output and minimise monitoring needs thus contributing to a smaller environmental footprint in cities. This paper thus suggests changing personal consumption patterns by promoting sustainable production and waste management practices through the development of an app-based system that provides users with strategies and options to reduce their waste footprint. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Publication: | Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to publishers. |
| Keywords: | Circular economy; Consumption patterns; Material reuse; Reduction strategy; Sustainable consumption; Waste material reuse; Waste reduction; Waste reduction strategy; Zero waste; Zero-waste lifestyle, Circular economy |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Department of Design & Manufacturing (formerly Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing) |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2024 19:39 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 19:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/86692 |
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