Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy: Towards a Wasteless Future or a Wasteful Planet? Antonis Mavropoulos

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• ISBN 10: 1119699339
• ISBN 13: 9781119699330
• Author: Antonis Mavropoulos; Anders Waage Nilsen

How the marriage of Industry 4.0 and the Circular Economy can radically transform waste management—and our world  Do we really have to make a choice between a wasteless and nonproductive world or a wasteful and ultimately self-destructive one? Futurist and world-renowned waste management scientist Antonis Mavropoulos and sustainable business developer and digital strategist Anders Nilsen respond with a ringing and optimistic “No!” They explore the Earth-changing potential of a happy (and wasteless) marriage between Industry 4.0 and a Circular Economy that could—with properly reshaped waste management practices—deliver transformative environmental, health, and societal benefits. This book is about the possibility of a brand-new world and the challenges to achieve it.   The fourth industrial revolution has given us innovations including robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, and biotech. By using these technologies to advance the Circular Economy—where industry produces more durable materials and runs on its own byproducts—the waste management industry will become a central element of a more sustainable world and can ensure its own, but well beyond business as usual, future. Mavropoulos and Nilsen look at how this can be achieved—a wasteless world will require more waste management—and examine obstacles and opportunities such as demographics, urbanization, global warming, and the environmental strain caused by the rise of the global middle class.   ·         Explore the new prevention, reduction, and elimination methods transforming waste management  ·         Comprehend and capitalize on the business implications for the sector   ·         Understand the theory via practical examples and case studies  ·         Appreciate the social benefits of the new approach  Waste-management has always been vital for the protection of health and the environment. Now it can become a crucial role model in showing how Industry 4.0 and the Circular Economy can converge to ensure flourishing, sustainable—and much brighter—future.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: The End of Business as Usual

Chapter 2: Understanding Industry 4.0

Chapter 3: Un(mis)understanding Circular Economy

Chapter 4: Redefining Resources andWaste

Chapter 5: Waste Management 4.0

Chapter 6: Towards the Digitalization of the Waste Industry

Chapter 7: The Rise of a NewScience

Chapter 8: Stairway to Heavenor Highway to Hell?

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