Zero waste and Wastephilian ethics during COVID-19.

Responsibility toward the planet becomes imperative during the pandemic. Among the pressing issues, this is the management of waste. Ethical considerations on waste pertain to the consistency of adopting viewpoints that confront waste and its reality. Zero waste prospects remain to be an ideal in the perceived sustainable futures. The ethics of wastephilia or wastephilian ethics can reimagine sustainability in terms of waste management. While acknowledging the spectral or circular character of waste, wastephilian ethics confronts this reality by living-with waste.