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This book presents hard facts to highlight our unsustainable consumption of the Earth's resources and the limitations of the UK's current management of waste and recycling. Of interest to manufacturers, retailers, consumers, local authorities, policy makers, students and professionals looking to reduce our impact on the environment.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Consuming the Earth’s resources 2. What we throw away 3. Key definitions and concepts 4. How our Household Waste is collected 5. How our Household Waste is treated 6. Linear vs. circular consumption 7. Consumerism and economic growth 8. Let’s talk about packaging 9. A focus on plastics 10. What we need to do differently 11. What we could achieve if we changed 12. A proposed way forward Annex I. How individual materials are reprocessed Annex II. Tips to help you to help the planet
About the author
Richard Waite studied and practised as a chartered engineer, before setting up one of the UK’s first household recycling schemes in the late 1980s. Subsequently, as a management consultant, he advised many councils and the Government on household waste management and recycling, and in 1995 wrote the first book on household waste recycling. He was the specialist advisor to the House of Commons Environment Select Committee during their 1993/94 inquiry into recycling. He then became the Managing Director of several very successful UK businesses but maintained his interest in recycling. Drawing on his own experience setting up and running one of the UK’s first companies recycling Household Waste, plus extensive research and analysis, he has written this book to draw attention to the crisis we face and to present a comprehensive blueprint for how we should in future manage our use of the Earth’s limited resources.
Summary
This book presents hard facts to highlight our unsustainable consumption of the Earth’s resources and the limitations of the UK’s current management of waste and recycling. Of interest to manufacturers, retailers, consumers, local authorities, policy makers, students and professionals looking to reduce our impact on the environment.
