Abstract:

Production and consumption activities carried out in order to meet human needs cause the occurrence of waste. Processing and/or disposal of wastes without risking human and environmental health are the main purpose of waste management. Today, many countries have adopted zero waste management in order to prevent waste-related risks. Practices such as reuse, recycling and recovery of wastes within the scope of zero waste management have various effects on environmental elements. The discussions on determining which practices within the scope of zero waste management are good and bad on behalf of environment and human health make it possible to look at the issue from the perspective of environmental ethics, which systematically examines human and environment relations. This study aims to examine the zero waste management in terms of environmental ethics approaches and to determine the position of the relevant management within these approaches. Within the scope of the study, zero waste management and environmental ethics approaches were examined, and it was determined that positioning the mentioned waste management system in eco centric environmental ethics would be a more correct point of view.

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