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Everything about Waste minimisation
Process that involves reducing the amount of waste produced in society
Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful, persistent waste, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustainable society. Waste minimisation involves redesigning products and processes and/or changing societal patterns of consumption and production. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Waste minimisationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Packaging plastic waste from e-commerce sector: The Indian scenario and a multi-faceted cleaner production solution towards waste minimisationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Agency's contribution to sustainable developmentThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A BIM-aided construction waste minimisation frameworkCited 197 times
- Go sideways: Source reductionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Packaging wasteA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A BIM-aided construction waste minimisation framework
Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain
Environmental rheology for waste minimisation in the minerals industry
Architect and contractor attitudes to waste minimisation
Waste minimisation strategies at the design phase: Architects’ response
Technological options for waste minimisation in the mining industry
UK waste minimisation clubs: a contribution to sustainable waste management
Waste minimisation in practice
🆕 Influential since 2022
Packaging plastic waste from e-commerce sector: The Indian scenario and a multi-faceted cleaner production solution towards waste minimisation
The Mediating Role of Policy-Related Factors in the Relationship between Practice of Waste Generation and Sustainable Construction Waste Minimisation: PLS-SEM
Experts’ Perceptions of the Management and Minimisation of Waste in the Australian Construction Industry
Implementing enterprise resource planning for lean waste minimisation: challenges and proposed strategies
Towards Zero Waste: An In-Depth Analysis of National Policies, Strategies, and Case Studies in Waste Minimisation
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕The Agency's contribution to sustainable developmentEnvironment Agency · 1997
- 📕Inter-organisational learning networks and waste minimisation projectsDebbie Millard · 2002
- 📕Waste minimisation and recycling in constructionStuart Coventry, S. Coventry · 1998
- 📕Clean technologies for waste minimisationEurEco Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (Firm), Witteveen · 1998
- 📕Waste minimisationKaren Pike, Paul Phillips · 1998
Waste minimisationMartin K., Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) · 1994- 📕Waste minimisation and recycling in constructionP. Guthrie · 1998
- 📕Waste minimisationWorld Resource Foundation. · 1995
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