Towards Sustainability: Achieving a Circular Economy Through Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 97
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Interests: green behavior; multidimensional performance evaluation of the social and ecological system
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Interests: environmental engineering; wastewater treatment; resource reclamation; renewable energy
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Interests: environmental economics and policy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The circular economy holds particular promise for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with sustainable solutions and novel practices in the circular economy focusing on materials downstream. Waste management is therefore a critical component of a circular economy, which aims to reduce waste and pollution by keeping products and materials in use for as long as possible. In striving to achieve a circular economy through waste management towards sustainability, many environmental, economic, technological, engineering, social, and policy issues ought to be discussed.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews related to waste management and the circular economy are welcome and research areas may include, but are not limited to:
- The relationship between the circular economy and waste management;
- Waste management policy design and simulation;
- Ecological waste management principles and frameworks;
- Sustainable waste management systems;
- Life cycle thinking and assessment for waste management;
- Stakeholder behavior analysis in waste management systems;
- Circular economy business models;
- Various types of solid waste management for a circular economy;
- Circular economy solutions to achieve sustainable development goals;
- Critical assessment of current circularity metrics;
- New information technology applied in sustainable waste management and the circular economy.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Tingting Liu
Dr. Yi Zhang
Dr. Zhixiong Weng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste management
- circular economy
- sustainable development
- carbon neutral
- 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle)
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