ZeroWaste

As main philosophy and principle about waste management in the 21st century, ‘Zero Waste’ is adopted in Canada. This principle includes not only recycling but also ‘whole system’ approach to the amount of resources and waste through society.

Zero Waste Principles

1. developing new ecological products

2. enforcing corporation’s responsibility about waste and ecology

3. using tax for building new technologies and infrastructures to take the place of a landfill or incinerator

4. doing away with paying subsidies for wasteful and polluting industries

5. encouraging jobs and new businesses from wasting materials

Achieving Zero Waste

1. Public begins to think about discards as resources.

2. Responsibility of waste and recycling is shared by corporations. If they do not accept the responsibility, we will have to make new rules and laws to eliminate recourse wasting behavior and to reward resource conserving behavior toward corporations.

3. Local governments support comprehensive choice to landfills incinerators and other resource destruction technologies. It means doing away with landfills and incinerators.

References

Lombardi, E. (2001). Beyond Recycling! Zero Waste …Or Darn Near. Retrieved October 27, 2005, from http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/articles/biocycle_zw_commentary.html

Sheehan, B., & Knapp, D. (2000). Zeroing In On Zero Waste. Retrieved October 27, 2005, from http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/articles/zeroing_in.html

Zero Waste North. (nd). What is Zero Waste?. Retrieved October 27, 2005, from http://www.footprintbc.com/zerowastenorth/html/about.htm