Urban growth and waste management optimization towards ‘zero waste city’

摘要: Abstract Today, many developed cities such as Stockholm, and Adelaide are aiming to transform their current waste management practice into a more efficient sustainable way, called zero practice. Increasingly people move from rural urban environments due the economic activities quality of life provided inhabitants, causing expand. Over-crowded compromising rapid growth ever-increasing generation waste. The concept “zero city” includes 100% recycling rate recovery all resources materials. However, transforming over-consuming is challenging. Therefore, this study aims understand key drivers challenges, threats, opportunities in traditional streams optimizing practices toward practices. Part an in-depth case analysis systems two cities, Stockholm. Cities high consuming countries, Australia Sweden, have been analyzed based on five contexts: social, economic, political, technological, environmental. In addition, identified. Both Stockholm vision become cities”. concludes that strategies tools, systems, technologies can assist transformation cities”; however, they must also be affordable, practicable, effective within local regulatory framework.