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The current consumption-driven society produces an enormous volume of waste every day. Continuous depletion of natural finite resources is leading the globe to an uncertain future. Therefore, to prevent further depletion of global resources, sustainable consumption and a strategic waste management system would be required. Human activities generate tremendous amounts of solid waste, and the amounts tend to increase as the demand for quality of life increases. Today’s waste generation rate in the country is alarming, posing a challenge to governments regarding environmental pollution. The expectation is that eventually waste treatment and waste prevention approaches will develop toward sustainable waste management solutions. Zero waste model is a visionary concept for confronting waste problems in our society. The zero waste models for solid waste management have been embraced by policymakers because they stimulate sustainable production and consumption, optimum recycling, and resource recovery. For building and paving operations, a nonbiodegradable fraction of solid waste could be used. Overall, the analysis highlights the paradigm change following the “zero waste” idea in solid waste management principles from linear to circular economies. The circular economy (CE) is a conceptual model used in a closed-loop approach to better resource use and waste minimization that could be suitable for waste management. The study also describes the policies of the circular economy for solid waste management, which boosts the country’s economy and identifies ways of optimizing local resources.
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Arora, S., Sethi, J., Rajvanshi, J., Sutaria, D., Saxena, S. (2022). Developing “Zero Waste Model” for Solid Waste Management to Shift the Paradigm Toward Sustainability. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Baskar, S., Sharma, R., Chinnappan, A., Sehrawat, R. (eds) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4230-2_20
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