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Waste
verb
1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
2. expend on an unappreciative recipient.
3. fail to make full or good use of.
4. eliberately dispose of (surplus stock).
5. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
adjective
1. (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.
2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on.
noun
1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
2. the gradual loss or diminution of something.
3. unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
4. a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.
5. damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
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CO2 monitoring and waste management in cities are not easy things to in cities. What can we do to lower the CO2, maybe we should promote public transport more and/or have better bike paths. One thing that needs to be considered is what a safe space for humanity is. The doughnut economy shows it well, the outer ring shows climate change, and the inner ring shows the social and living aspects. How can we find a good balance within this?
(2020b)
If you start pulling one thing another might get worse too. The outer ring can not be pushed too much or we risk very catastrophic consequences from climate change.
(Meet the Doughnut: The New Economic Model That Could Help End Inequality, 2022)
With C40, they raise awareness of waste management. https://www.c40.org/cities/ They have a webpage that shows which cities are a part of the goal to become more sustainable, lower the temperature and much more.
Individually and as a city we need to think about the 3 R's; Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
On https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/ you can see how well your city in the UK is doing to change to be a more sustainable city.
I wanted to see how well Sweden does because I know we import trash because we don't produce enough on our own. Sweden uses a waste-to-energy program and 99% of the household waste is recycled. (Swedish Recycling so Successful It Is Importing Rubbish, 2019)
References:
F. (2020, September 11). How Fairbnb.coop fits into the Doughnut Economics. Fairbnb.coop - Community Powered Tourism. https://fairbnb.coop/2020/09/11/how-fairbnb-coop-fits-into-the-doughnut-economics/
Meet the doughnut: the new economic model that could help end inequality. (2022, May 20). World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/the-new-economic-model-that-could-end-inequality-doughnut
Swedish recycling so successful it is importing rubbish. (2019, February 25). www.trtworld.com. https://www.trtworld.com/europe/swedish-recycling-so-successful-it-is-importing-rubbish-24491
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