Singh Jagdeep, Laurenti Rafael, Sinha Rajib, Frostell Björn
Division of Industrial Ecology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Division of Industrial Ecology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Waste Manag Res. 2014 Sep;32(9):800-12. doi: 10.1177/0734242X14537868. Epub 2014 Jun 17.
Rapid economic growth, urbanization and increasing population have caused (materially intensive) resource consumption to increase, and consequently the release of large amounts of waste to the environment. From a global perspective, current waste and resource management lacks a holistic approach covering the whole chain of product design, raw material extraction, production, consumption, recycling and waste management. In this article, progress and different sustainability challenges facing the global waste management system are presented and discussed. The study leads to the conclusion that the current, rather isolated efforts, in different systems for waste management, waste reduction and resource management are indeed not sufficient in a long term sustainability perspective. In the future, to manage resources and wastes sustainably, waste management requires a more systems-oriented approach that addresses the root causes for the problems. A specific issue to address is the development of improved feedback information (statistics) on how waste generation is linked to consumption.
快速的经济增长、城市化进程以及人口增加导致（物质密集型）资源消耗上升，进而向环境中排放大量废弃物。从全球视角来看，当前的废弃物与资源管理缺乏一种涵盖产品设计、原材料开采、生产、消费、回收利用及废弃物管理整个链条的整体方法。本文介绍并讨论了全球废弃物管理系统所取得的进展以及面临的不同可持续性挑战。该研究得出的结论是，从长期可持续性角度来看，当前在不同的废弃物管理、废弃物减量及资源管理系统中各自为政的努力确实是不够的。未来，为了可持续地管理资源与废弃物，废弃物管理需要一种更具系统性的方法，以解决问题的根源。一个需要解决的具体问题是，要开发出关于废弃物产生与消费如何关联的更完善的反馈信息（统计数据）。
