Ecocentrism and Circular Economy: A Waste-to-Wealth Approach
Author : Arnab Mahapatra
Abstract :
The sustenance of living beings, including human beings is strongly reliant on the protection of environment. The protection of environment and eco-centrism go hand in hand as the later strongly vouches for the care for both biotic and abiotic components of environment. The ‘respect for nature’ is strongly grounded on how human beings could justify the interconnectedness and interdependence of every component of environment and it is, no doubt, synonymous with the conscientious use of resources and taking concrete measures to reduce wastes, which pose to be a serious threat to environment. One of such measures happens to be recycling wastes to get these accommodated into economic systems in order to create value from them. The value creating aspect of waste products not only has economic benefits, but also has deep-rooted social implications. Such ‘waste-to-wealth’ outlook requires badly the circular economic framework, which is closed-loop, facilitating recycling of wastes in order to use these again in economic frameworks. The present paper seeks to re-look and evaluate the efficacy of the eco-consciousness in implementing circular economic framework to ascertain creating values from wastes. It also attempts to delve into how eco-centrism stimulates sustainable development in the context of ‘waste-to-wealth’ approach.
Keywords :
Circular economic framework, eco-centrism, eco-consciousness, efficacy, respect for nature, sustainable development, waste-to-wealth
