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Fwd: Re: New Zealand 1st to Adopt Zero Waste
- Subject: Fwd: Re: New Zealand 1st to Adopt Zero Waste
- From: Robert Pojasek <rpojasek@sprynet.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:52:36 -0500
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- Reply-To: Robert Pojasek <rpojasek@sprynet.com>
It is my understanding that the New Zealand program, like the one in
Australia, is aimed at solid waste reduction, not hazardous waste
reduction. And it keeps solid wastes from going into the landfill
with much emphasis on recycling, although some source reduction is worked
in. The problem with these programs often lies in the recyclers,
who think you are trying to eliminate their jobs when you reduce the
volume of waste they are recycling.
Bob Pojasek
Take a look at the Hazardous and Solid Waste
Amendments of 1984. In it, Congress established a goal of
eliminating the production of hazardous waste as well as a hierarchy of
how what HW is produced is managed!
Ralph E. Cooper, Ph.D.
- Subject: Fwd: New Zealand 1st to Adopt Zero Waste
- Apologies for Cross-Postings
- From: "Sunshine Yates"
<sunshine@zerowaste.co.nz>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:47:03 +1300
- NEW ZEALAND FIRST COUNTRY TO ADOPT ZERO WASTE
- On March 1st New Zealand became the first country in the world to
adopt a
- national vision of zero waste. The new strategy, subtitled - 'Towards
zero
- waste and a sustainable New Zealand' recognises the groundswell of
public support that has grown for the adoption of Zero Waste as a
national goal over the last few years. With nearly 50% of councils
committed to zero
- waste and numerous community groups, businesses and schools working
in their communities to achieve it, the grassroots message to Government
was quite clear. The strategy document doesn't say how we'll reach zero,
but it is a good starting point and much needed support for all those who
have been working for change over the last 10-12 years.
- For more information on the strategy visit the Ministry for the
- Environment's website
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/new/index.htm
- Julie Dickinson
- Manager
- Zero Waste New Zealand Trust
Bob
Dr. Robert B. Pojasek
Pojasek & Associates
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