This book draws on insights that originated from the Circular Economy and Zero Waste
initiatives. Together these approaches try to boost the shift from ¿waste¿ to ¿resources¿
management. The content of this book is partially organized from a stakeholder perspective
revealing the managerial implications for public and private actors. Next to public policies
also illustrations come from the private sector. Petstar Texperium and Walmart generously
shared some of their best practices at in this regard. Cases from China Indonesia Mexico the
Netherlands and Romania are discussed in this book. In all of these different contexts they
show ways to create collaborative schemes in order to ¿retain¿ the resources¿ values as much as
product quality and financial circumstances permit. The reader can thus take advantage of the
pragmatic viewpoints that aim to inspire policy makers researchers students organisations
and communities to boost the needed changes towards a Zero Waste Economy.
