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Zero waste and Wastephilian ethics during COVID-19

Author(s) -

Jan Gresil Kahambing

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdab255

Subject(s) - covid-19 , zero (linguistics) , public health , zero waste , virology , environmental health , medicine , philosophy , nursing , waste management , engineering , outbreak , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics

Responsibility toward the planet becomes imperative during the pandemic. Among the pressing issues, this is the management of waste. Ethical considerations on waste pertain to the consistency of adopting viewpoints that confront waste and its reality. Zero waste prospects remain to be an ideal in the perceived sustainable futures. The ethics of wastephilia or wastephilian ethics can reimagine sustainability in terms of waste management. While acknowledging the spectral or circular character of waste, wastephilian ethics confronts this reality by living-with waste.

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