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Many developed countries have made great strides in addressing waste management, particularly since the environment came onto the international agenda in the 1960s, and there are many good practice examples available for the international community to learn from. However, the initial focus was on waste after it had been discarded, whereas now attention has moved upstream, addressing the problem at its source through, for example, designing out waste, preventing its generation, reducing both the quantities and the uses of hazardous substances, minimizing and reusing, and, where residuals do occur, keeping them concentrated and separate to preserve their intrinsic value for recycling and recovery, and preventing them from contaminating other waste that still has economic value for recovery.
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Nikzad, H. (2020). Solid Waste Management in Kabul. In: Ghosh, S. (eds) Circular Economy: Global Perspective. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1052-6_3
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