Zero Waste
Item
Title of Resource
Zero Waste
Main Topic
Biodiversity and Ecosystem impacts
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Human Health
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Waste management
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TypeofFocus
Specific topic (e.g., focusing on a particular topic)
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Format
Newspaper and article
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License
Date Created
2007
Audience Education Level
General public
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Publisher URL
Type
text
countryOfOrigin
South Africa
Publication Continent
Africa
Competency
Strategic planning
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Science Approaches
Sustainability
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Climate compatible development
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Mitigation strategies
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Adaptation strategies
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ESD and ESD learning processes
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Learning Approaches
None given (content only)
Includes References
No
Suggested Usefulness
Very useful
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Indigenous Voice
Yes. Indigenous knowledge systems
Women and Children Agency
Yes. Adopting a zero waste society benefits all as energy, shelter, water and food can be derived from the waste generated from consumption process.Inter-connected operations will create methane for heating and lighting from sewage and other wastes, fertiliser for food production from digester effluent, without having to spend vast resources in disposing of our waste from kitchen or sewage to distant sites, which cost the taxpayer large amounts of money.
Social Inclusion
Yes. Using a zero waste industrial park that create processes for total material and energy recovery from all operations that are linked into new processes, which add value in a continuous and seamless fashion without stretching the boundaries of science and technology, while regenerating local ecosystems through meeting the needs of all.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Yes
Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 12 - Responsible Production & Consumption
Normative Competency Areas
Global citizenship
Systems Thinking Competency Areas
Global citizenship
Intrapersonal Competency Areas
Global citizenship
Action Competency Areas
Global citizenship
Abstract
Universal responsibility - (sense of global responsibility)
Earth love - (respect Earth and life in all its diversity)
Earth limits - (focuses on respecting planetary boundaries of Earth)
