TY - CHAP
T1 - Circular Economy for Waste Reduction and Carbon Footprint
AU - Gómez-Prado, Romina
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Sánchez-Palomino, Jorge
AU - de las Mercedes Anderson-Seminario, Maria
AU - Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022/4/3
Y1 - 2022/4/3
N2 - The anthropogenic activities developed in the manufacturing and distribution of products that are carried out at greater intensity to meet the growing demand and consumption worldwide produce a more significant amount of greenhouse gases (GHG), which impacts global warming. In the same way, the problem of the scarcity of natural resources, increasingly growing, creates the need to seek better alternatives with a sustainable approach to protect the state of the planet in which we live. For this, the support of governments, companies, and even consumers is required. This chapter takes the perspective of the circular economy (CE) as an opportunity to implement sustainable methods based on the management and reduction of waste, giving them a new function. Adding the use of the carbon footprint (CF) as a tool that allows knowing the impact of anthropogenic activities on the environment is added. In addition, confirmed cases aim to reduce GHG emissions by implementing a more efficient system that originates based on the CE principles.
AB - The anthropogenic activities developed in the manufacturing and distribution of products that are carried out at greater intensity to meet the growing demand and consumption worldwide produce a more significant amount of greenhouse gases (GHG), which impacts global warming. In the same way, the problem of the scarcity of natural resources, increasingly growing, creates the need to seek better alternatives with a sustainable approach to protect the state of the planet in which we live. For this, the support of governments, companies, and even consumers is required. This chapter takes the perspective of the circular economy (CE) as an opportunity to implement sustainable methods based on the management and reduction of waste, giving them a new function. Adding the use of the carbon footprint (CF) as a tool that allows knowing the impact of anthropogenic activities on the environment is added. In addition, confirmed cases aim to reduce GHG emissions by implementing a more efficient system that originates based on the CE principles.
KW - Carbon footprint
KW - Circular economy
KW - Environmental
KW - Global warming
KW - Greenhouse gases
KW - Waste
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/f964b3c8-a52c-301a-b206-1015283b0b32/
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-0549-0_7
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-0549-0_7
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85127930039
SN - 978-981-19-0548-3
T3 - Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes
SP - 139
EP - 159
BT - Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes
PB - Springer
ER -