Question.981 - Please comment on which topic within this week’s reading had the greatest impact on you. How do you think your selected topic can bring greater sustainability to organizations or various communities of people? Give examples how it can be employed. Try to use at least one other source to support your argument.
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Considering the weekly reading, one topic that could significantly impact sustainability is recycling in terms of mitigating there a reduction of waste, conversing resources, and regulating climate change. The chapter talks about recycling practices in an organized manner wherein by establishing an inclusive environment with the aid of communities; Firstly, work on reducing resource extraction with recycling interventions reduces the raw materials extraction; for instance, recycled aluminum requires 95% less energy when compared with virgin materials. Secondly, minimize the wastage in landfills and incinerators, wherein it tends to aid in the reduction of greenhouse gasses and other related pollutants from waste disposal rather than working on establishing recycling plants to reintroduce the waste into the value chain. Thirdly, consider creating economic opportunities whereby recycling could enable various new economic opportunities in terms of start-ups and other microenterprises. For instance, Nigerian company Wecyclers tend to employ waste pickers to provide household services pertaining to recycling by cargo bikes. In order to establish these strategies, organizations and local communities can adapt to the dynamic growth trends in order to reduce the burden on virgin materials by implementing a comprehensive recycling initiative that covers a wider range of materials in accordance with waste collection system or single-stream recycling options to make recycling convenient that pushes the waste to recycle plant and then straight to value chain; secondly manufacturing firm can collaborate with recycle industry to tap into the recycled material which makes it easier for the organization since it would already be sorted and processed making the process more optimized; Lastly educate both organizations and local communities, since when compared to landfill and waste dumping, there is bleak attention given to recycling process, which is the need of the hour; public behavior towards recycling needs to be educated in order to environmentally sustain the waste reduction process.References Hawken, P. (Ed.). (2017). Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Penguin.More Articles From Strategic Management
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