Waste Management and Sustainable Solutions: A Literature Review

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Literature Review

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature review....................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The social ecological issues are related to factors of challenges of environment if affects the
environment in negative manner. The report will also discuss about the waste management
and made understanding about different aspects which are affecting the social environment.
There will also be the discussion about different type of sustainability design which can helps
to build the effective waste management.

Literature review
The waste management is one of the aspect which determines the process or activities of
managing the waste from its commencement to its final disposal. This is quiet large process
which includes some different aspect to be followed including assortment, conveyance,
treatment and disposal of waste with the different approaches of observing and instruction to
the waste management.
In the words of author (Papargyropoulou, et. al., 2014), the waste management is one of the
necessary activity to be done to make the socio ecological environment balanced. This is
necessary to understand that the growth and development of environment depends on the
different activities which are necessary to protect the environment. The reduction and
burning of waste is becoming one of major factor of boost in the cleanliness and protection of
different countries. Waste could be solid, liquid or gaseous and each type of waste attain
different procedure to get dissolved. Proper waste management focuses on to attain some
strategies which helps to resolve the issues and build effective and clean environment.
According to the author (Jambeck, et. al., 2015), system design is one of the process which
can help to get rid of the issue of waste management. As this is the approach which refers to
the process which not only gives the resolution about issue apart from that consider the
values of surrounding environment. In context of waste management this is necessary to build
some strategies which helps to resolve the problem as well as protect the environment. One of
the systematic idea which can be used for waste management is relates to recycle the waste in
some other important aspect or asset. This would be helpful to make the properly manage the
waste which will make positive impact on the environment. On the other hand, if waste will
be recycled then it will help to protect and rebuild the environment.
In the words of author (Mian, et. al., 2017), sustainable design is also one of the philosophy
which helps to build the innovative and valuable design of the issue. The major focus of
sustainability design is to focus on the different aspects which relates to the resource and
environmental factors. In simple words the sustainable designing focuses on to resolve the
issues with the formation of effective use and consideration of different resources and
environment. The issue which have been discussed is related to the waste management which
could be mitigated with the use of sustainability design process. It could be understanding
that while implementing the process of reducing is related to the resource management. The

concept of sustainability design helps to recycle and reuse the waste with environmental
friendly aspects and builds the effective formation of goof and impactful values.
According to the author (Allesch and Brunner, 2014), waste management is necessary to be
performed to attain the effective and clean environment. This could also be stated that the
process of attaining the resolution will include some sort of different aspects which will help
to get rid of the issue. There is some different type of uncertainty can be raised while
executing the sustainability solution of waste management that is recycling the waste to use
again. One of the major uncertainty is related to the effective process to be used to recycle
different type of waste. One of the major concern while implementing the idea us to make the
consideration about such aspect which could be cost effective and easy to be used to achieve
the values. There is different type of strategies which can be used to get the resolution but the
main objective is to make that strategy simpler and more impactful in context of success of
idea. Thus, it can be stated that this is necessary to build the effective strategies to attain the
solution in significant manner.
In the words of author (Papargyropoulou, et. al., 2014), the risk and uncertainty are different
from each other in context of sources as well as impacts in the sustainability solutions. The
uncertainty refers to the improper or irrelevant information about some aspect which can be
negative in context of attaining the resolution. On the other hand, risk is known as destruction
or damage for the implemented solution. Both of these factors differ from each other in
context of values and approaches. The major different between risk and uncertainty is related
to the future aspects. As then future can be predicting in context of risk but this cannot be
assumed in the formation of uncertainty. The risk is possible to be resolved but the
uncertainties are quite difficult to be resolved. The values and damage of risk can be
quantifying but the uncertainties are not easy to be measured or identified. These are some of
the differences between risk and uncertainty which needs to be determined while making the
solution.

Conclusion
The report had concluded about the importance and values of waste management. There was
also the discussion about some aspects of sustainable solutions which can be used to attain
resolution regarding the issues. there was also the discussion about the difference between
risk and uncertainty.

References
 Allesch, A. and Brunner, P.H., 2014. Assessment methods for solid waste
management: A literature review. Waste Management & Research, 32(6), pp.461-473.
 Jambeck, J.R., Geyer, R., Wilcox, C., Siegler, T.R., Perryman, M., Andrady, A.,
Narayan, R. and Law, K.L., 2015. Plastic waste inputs from land into the
ocean. Science, 347(6223), pp.768-771.
 Mian, M.M., Zeng, X., Nasry, A.A.N.B. and Al-Hamadani, S.M., 2017. Municipal
solid waste management in China: a comparative analysis. Journal of Material Cycles
and Waste Management, 19(3), pp.1127-1135.
 Papargyropoulou, E., Lozano, R., Steinberger, J.K., Wright, N. and bin Ujang, Z.,
2014. The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus
and food waste. Journal of Cleaner Production, 76, pp.106-115.