System: Waste Infrastructure Service

Name:  Waste Infrastructure Service

Based on:  Human Activity Infrastructure Service and Ecosystem

This infrastructure service includes the normal waste management capabilities for the following solid waste:

• Paper

• Plastic

• Ash from Industry

• Food.

• Garden (leaves, branches, cut grass, etc)

• Medical

• demolition debris from construction

• Electronic products

• Batteries

• Oil and Gas

In addition, there are other types of waste that require additional capabilities:

• Nuclear

• GHG Emissions (F-Gasses, CO₂, Methane)

The purpose of the Waste Infrastructure Service is to collect and recycle waste. The scope of this infrastructure service is as follows:

• GHG (including F-Gasses, CO₂, Methane)

• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) including skins (land, coastal, ocean and engineered)

• Waste removal and disposal

• Plastic waste

• Nuclear waste

• supply of biowaste for energy or agriculture

The Circular Economy (design for recycle and reuse) and focus on zero waste provides an opportunity for the waste infrastructure service to support the waste producers to find ways to eliminate waste at the source. This infrastructure service may also provide a number of possible Secondary Raw Materials Sector / Market as part of the nutrient (technical and biological) recycle, reuse and regeneration processes.

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

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