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Climate Change & Waste: Reduce Waste That Matters
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Climate Change & Waste: Reduce Waste That Matters

Meet the ONLY waste type contributing to climate change, reduce it in five ways; and keep resources in the system.
Created byJan Rajnoch
Last updated 6/2022
English
English [Auto],Japanese [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Contrast the linear (take->make->waste) approach and the circular (borrow->use->return) approach to resource use
  • Discover 3 hard-to-reduce waste types and what you can do to reduce them
  • Learn what’s the ONLY waste type contributing to climate change and why it is a problem
  • Contrast 5 things you can do to reduce this waste type and avoid methane emissions
  • Explore modern and ancient examples of the circular economy
  • Get strategies for success – drive sustainable change at your organization (get people on board)

Course content

5 sections • 13 lectures • 2h 3m total length

  • Introduction & Couse outline2:12

    Explore how climate change and waste connect, learn the reduce, reuse, and recycle hierarchy, contrast linear and circular models, and uncover five ways to cut waste that drives climate impact.

  • Waste or Resource? 3 Conceptual frameworks15:38

    Contrast waste and resource using three frameworks—egocentric model, nested dependencies, and the triple bottom line—and tie to sustainable development goals while illustrating nature's recirculation versus harmful waste.

  • Reduce -> Reuse -> Recycle hierarchy15:09

    Explore how the reduce, reuse, recycle hierarchy prioritizes reducing to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent waste entering the linear system, 90 billion tons of materials, only 9% recycled.

  • S1 Quiz. Waste or Resource? Conceptual frameworks

Requirements

  • No prior experience required.
  • Interest in sustainability, climate change mitigation, the environment, and driving change is a plus.

Description

This course addresses our modern dilemma: resources or waste?

91% of all primary resources used globally are wasted. True, the circular economy – as demonstrated on examples in the course – offers hope...

But there is too much focus on recycling and single-use plastics – both important, but not the most important variables in the waste-reduction equation.

Learn the priorities of waste management, not “nice-to-haves”.

Reduce waste that matters, especially waste that contributes to climate change!

Follow the reduce – reuse – recycle hierarchy, in that order.

See how you can implement models, e.g. Triple Bottom Line and the SDGs, in your organization or home in a way that saves money, creates local jobs and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

Get a resource that’ll help you get others on board with your sustainable waste management practices. Get other resources that’ll help you reduce waste-organics and generate your own free and organic liquid fertilizer, whether you are in a house, apartment, or an office.

Whether you are an individual who wants to reduce your own waste at home or with your family, or if you’re are responsible for waste management at work – either directly, e.g. cleaners, facilities managers, small business owners, or indirectly, as a teacher, operations manager, cook or nurse … whether you want to reduce pollution, costs, material and resource use, or improve efficiency, become sustainable, and improve your environmental footprint through better waste mgmt - this course is for you.

Who this course is for:

  • People with a keen interest in sustainability, especially reducing GHG emissions and landfill waste
  • People who want to drive change through waste reduction, circular economy, and resource reuse
  • People who struggle with getting others on board with sustainability
  • Professionals keen to reduce waste at work (e.g. teachers, directors, business owners, middle managers, SMEs)
  • Parents with young children

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