zero waste II.

hello World,

In this post you will find one of the current governmental Zero Waste project in Australia. It based on understanding of simple rule - there is no waste in Nature.

In following days (30th Nov & 1st Dec) there will be Zero Waste Summit in Sydney, Australia. The Summit will provide a timely focus on the future prospects for the waste industry in a Climate Change world, to finally close the loop on Zero Waste in Australia by developing responsible and sustainable solutions in resource recovery. In short this event will be the first of many National discussions looking at why you as an individual living on a resource limited planet should consider a Zero Waste future and why there is no alternative. The goal of Canberra is to produce no waste until 2010.

Australian government has set up National Waste Policy, where some of the issues are:
- Humanity will run out of mineable quantities of agricultural phosphate in 30 years;
- “Waste Management” must become “Nutrient Management” to sustain agriculture;
- Australia spends $4 billion per year managing 40 million tones of waste half of which is organic;
- The waste industry currently employs 14,000 – Recycling currently employs 38,600. Jobs in all communities would greatly expand with organics reuse;

The National Waste Policy wants to achieve sustainability by
(a) eliminating all solid and liquid waste;
(b) releasing zero emissions into the atmosphere;
(c) recycling or reusing finite and valuable resources;
(d) developing efficient transportation in terms of both environmental and economic costs;
(e) educating the community to the long term effects and power of their short term choices; and
(f) realistically pricing the environmental costs of production for industry.

there is no alternative, there is only eco friendly