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What is zero waste?  www.grrn.org/zerowaste/

Zero Waste is a new goal for a new century - one that seeks to redesign the way that resources and materials flow through society taking a 'whole system' approach.  It is both an 'end of pipe' solution that maximizes recycling and waste minimization and a design principle which ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.

Zero Waste envisions the complete redesign of the industrial system so that we no longer view nature as an endless supply of materials for making into products that break down within a period and are then discarded into landfills or incinerators.

Zero Waste is a target for all sectors of society to aim for - one that resets the compass so that governments, communities and businesses no longer base their viability on wasting the earth's resources.

Zero Waste is a call to action that aims to bring an end to the current "take, make and waste mentality" of human society.  Humans are the only species on the planet that don't live by zero waste principles.  We must learn from nature that unassimilated waste accumulates and eventually threatens the system or organism that creates the waste.