Abstract
The aim of this scoping review was to gain an overview of the current state of the literature on the engagement in waste sorting post migration from an occupational perspective, in the light of two aspects sustainability efforts currently face: Increased human migration and environmental degradation. Both the resource recovery and occupational science literature were reviewed and analyzed. However, despite the current lack on studies on how migrants’ transition into waste sorting schemes at the household level, this scoping review was able to provide a broad picture of the engagement in daily activities that support sustainability, such as household waste sorting. Given the current initiatives to develop efficient resource recovery from waste, such knowledge contributes to efforts to engage households with different cultures and experiences in waste sorting. The results highlight the importance of future research to better understand how people who are new to waste management schemes experience these, and study the way that engagement in waste sorting shifts and transforms. This is because providing such knowledge can contribute to raising awareness of the environmental impact of waste sorting, and inform policies aimed at sustainable waste management.
Highlights
The notion of sustainability encompasses environmental, social and economic aspects, all of which are relevant to both waste sorting and human migration
The aim of this scoping review was to explore the state of the literature on the phenomenon that is engagement in waste sorting post immigration in the resource recovery and occupational science literature
All other resource recovery studies that were included in this review do not study waste sorting among people with an immigration background per se, but meet the inclusion criteria because information on waste sorting among ethnic groups or immigrants was presented as a byproduct of their objectives [27,28,29,30,31,32,33]
Summary
The notion of sustainability encompasses environmental, social and economic aspects, all of which are relevant to both waste sorting and human migration. Efforts to tackle economic sustainability are often oriented towards prosperity of the people through economic, technical and social progress [1]. Social sustainability efforts aim to end hunger and poverty, and create environments in which people can live prosperous, healthy, equal and dignified lives [1]. Environmental sustainability efforts aim to protect the planet for the species that live on it and for future generations. Such efforts can be achieved through sustainable consumption, production and by preventing further degradation of the planet and its ecology [1] with effective management of resources from waste
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