WASTE MINIMIZATION

What is waste?
Waste is the unwanted or useless materials generated
from activities in a given area.

Bio - waste E- waste

Iron - waste House clean waste

 What is waste minimization?
The act of reducing something to the least possible
amount or degree or position.

High waste
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Low waste
What is waste minimization?
“Systematically reducing waste at source”

 Prevention and/or reduction of waste

generated.
 Efficient use of raw materials and packaging.
 Efficient use of fuel, electricity and water.
 Improving the quality of waste generated to
facilitate recycling and/or reduce hazard.
 Encouraging re-use, recycling and recovery.
 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

Life Cycle - major activities of a product’s life-

span from its manufacture, use, maintenance,

to its final disposal.
“LCA” – Systematic evaluation to Identify , Measure ,
Characterize different potential environmental
impacts associated to each one of the stages of the
life cycle of a product.
 LCA is also known as a "Cradle to Grave"
sustainability assessment.

 Cradle to Grave is a biomimetic approach to

the design of products and systems that
models human industry on nature's processes
viewing materials as nutrients circulating in
healthy, safe metabolisms.
GREEN MARKETING
 Green marketing is the marketing of
products that are presumed to be
environmentally safe.
 In simple terms it refers to the process of
selling products and/or services based on
their environmental benefits.
 Such a product may be environmentally
friendly in itself or produced and/ or
packaged in this way.
 Macdonald’s have stopped packaging their
hamburgers etc in polystyrene containers and
now use cardboards which come from
renewable resource and is biodegradable or
recyclable.
 The production process is compatible with
ecosystem It is compatible with goals of the
company It satisfies the consumers.
 “Design for Disassembly (DFD) is the
process of designing products so that they
can be easily, cost-effectively and rapidly
taken apart at the end of the product's life so
that components can be reused and/or
recycled.”