Efficiency features for the six star Green Star-rated structure include floor to ceiling double glazing, a dedicated waste storage area for recycling, an advanced rainwater and grey water reuse system, LED and T5 fluorescent lighting, and fritted insulating glass to maximise solar insulation.
In the energy system, waste reuse processes need modifications, since waste is an important raw-material of bioethanol.
It's students like the ones at Burega School Complex in the Rulindo district of Rwanda, who devised rainwater harvesting and human waste compost and reuse systems to support the operations and funding for their new water and sanitation infrastructure.
If waste reuse is culturally not anchored, for example, domestic wastewater management systems aiming at vegetable garden irrigation are likely to fail.
Despite the critical role of innovation in waste reuse, innovation for waste reuse technologies has been largely overlooked in innovation studies.
So why not a reuse system?
Soneva Fushi in the Maldives converts and reuses almost 80 percent of the waste it generates through its integrated waste management system.
Similarly, composting and recovery (i.e. recycling and reuse) have become a more prominent part of waste management systems.
Recently, the Vietnam Government again emphasised that it is necessary to develop waste management systems in which solid wastes are classified at source, collected, reused, renewed, and treated with progressive technologies to boost technological innovation in waste-to-energy processes [29].
The circular economy is the most exciting idea in corporate sustainability, and it's spreading fast: companies are finding ways to take back, refurbish, reuse or recycle products that would otherwise be thrown away, creating a closed-loop, zero-waste circular system of production to replace the old-fashioned take-make-waste linear model.
