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Abimbola Okoya, Silifat, Oyinlola, Muyiwa, Schröder, Patrick, Kolade, Oluwaseun and Abolfathi, Soroush (2023) Enhancing decentralised recycling solutions with digital technologies. In: Oyinlola, Muyiwa Adeyinka and Kolade, Oluwaseun, (eds.) Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781003278443
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003278443-16
Abstract
The increasing use of plastics, mostly as packaging materials, has created a significant environmental threat that continues to escalate yearly. The challenges in the management of plastic waste have thereby created a worldwide crisis which has birthed a new planetary boundary menace. Plastic recycling has, however, been recognised as the most sustainable way of managing waste, with centralised systems primarily adopted in the Global West and locally decentralised approaches with digitally enabled small-scale enterprises emerging in Africa. Digital technologies such as mobile applications, geographic information systems and artificial intelligence, among others, have been integrated in common circular plastic economy models that focus on subscriptions, collections and processing of plastic waste. This chapter demonstrates that decentralised plastic waste management solutions offer significant social, environmental and economic benefits to stakeholders and therefore need to be supported by sensitisation and awareness of the use of digital technologies for localised recycling in communities.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TS Manufactures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Plastics , Plastic scrap, Plastic scrap -- Recycling, Factory and trade waste, Plastics -- Environmental aspects | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Abingdon, Oxon | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781003278443 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa | ||||||
| Editor: | Oyinlola, Muyiwa Adeyinka and Kolade, Oluwaseun | ||||||
| Official Date: | 31 May 2023 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 280 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003278443-16 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 May 2023 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 May 2023 | ||||||
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