Social media has provided a fascinating interactive platform and helped in connecting the people, which was too rare before covid. In a way, Covid has provided opportunities to the people to engage and revive many missing factors out to be an integral part of society. slow down in business activities, job layoffs have naturally encouraged people to be careful in their spending. eventually, it has lead to preventing waste in spending. this has taught humanity that it is easy to earn money but difficult to spend it. I don't know if this change in habit will still continue after covid. I would request the readers/researchers to enlighten on all types of wastes, such as Waste in spending VS Consumerism (waste on undesirable purchases).
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Two overarching agendas for focusing on sustainability, including tackling all forms of waste and living within our means:
1. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2_2
2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imic.2015.04.001
I've written on this topic in a recent editorial in Detritus, linked below, about solid waste more broadly. Ultimately the point of the piece is that, in my opinion, what the pandemic has demonstrated is that individual action adds up to very little impact in reducing wastage, climate change, etc. Consumption patterns may shift, but not enough to make a meaningful difference.
Ultimately, consumption is not the issue, but capitalist production and accumulation.
I hope you find the piece useful or otherwise interesting.
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Yes you are absolutely right , this pandemic has taught many useful lessons to the society. Especially to value the blessings from the almighty
It is recommended that we should be mindful in using the utilities
Foe example the restaurant culture has increased the food waste drastically which is controlled to a considerable extent during covid but is expected to revert when the things will stabilise
every waste is a threat to sustainability as the reserves are limited for the non renewable sources
For waste we should try to follow Reduce, reuse and recycle (3R)
Thanks for a very interesting and important question..really appreciate that
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