Closing the loop: a campus-wide waste minimization initiative through education for sustainable development

• Main Author: Zen, Irina Safitri
• Other Authors: Wan Zulkifli, Wan Zahidah
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; English
• Published: Sejahtera Center for Sustainability & Humanity 2021
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; GE196 Sustainable living; GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; H65 Schools. Institutes of social sciences; HM831 Social change; LB2300 Higher Education; QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/91059/1/FINAL%20RCEAwardChapterIrinaBookChapterPublished2021.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/91059/7/AcceptanceRCE%20AWARDS%20SUBMISSION%202Book.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/91059/; https://centre.iium.edu.my/sejahtera/?page_id=52#https://online.fliphtml5.com/yuvig/yqcu/#p=1

The food waste composting program reflect the circular economic practice at the Institution of higher Education by using IIUM as a case study. An action research of inter and trans-disciplinary of sustainability science covers the action research by Food waste composting groups which consist of practitioner and researcher. This effort supported by education for sustainable development, ESD approach to the campus community to stimulate more involvement of campus community through research, education and community engagement. Several achievements were documented.