Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods

Waste and circular economy

Solid Waste Management in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Moving towards a Circular Economy?

The paper presents the current situation of the waste management system of the megacity Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and the options for waste and land recycling in a low income country. Generally, there is a large potential for circular economy in the city as the main proportion of the waste flows are recyclables. Due to the missing selective collection system, this potential is not used in the ful...

Circular Re-ranking for Visual Search

Conventional approaches to visual search re-ranking empirically take the “classification performance” as the optimization objective, in which each visual document is determined relevant or not, followed by a process of increasing the order of relevant documents. First show that the classification performance fails to produce a globally optimal ranked list, and then formulate re-ranking as an op...

Transition towards a Circular Economy: Perspectives

The UK economy is overly reliant on unsustainable production and consumption 12 practices, depleting finite resources at rates that will increase production costs, business risk and 13 economic instability. This over-consumption produces emissions and waste that cause climate 14 change and environmental degradation, impacting on the wellbeing of people in the UK and 15 beyond. The Resource Reco...

Re-Introducing Consumption to the ‘Circular Economy’: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Domestic Food Provisioning

The paper makes two contributions to the advancement of the ‘circular economy’ as a blueprint for a more sustainable society. The first is to highlight the importance of understanding the dynamics of consumption and waste in the domestic sphere. The second is to illustrate two ways in which using insights from socio-technical literature on sustainable consumption, in combination with the sociol...