THE FOUR PILLARS OF ZERO WASTE:
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According to the Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN), zero waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society.
Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.
Typically 85%-90% of an institution's waste stream needs to be diverted (waste diversion rate), with benchmarks of 50% & 70% along the way to be considered "zero waste".
(Source: www.grrn.org/page/what-zero-waste)
However, given diverse infrastructure and regional limitations, Western's zero waste may only be a 75% WDR. It is important to know that institutions across the nation will have varying degrees of zero waste and that Western is committed to exploring what those metrics may be.
ZERO WASTE:
Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.
Typically 85%-90% of an institution's waste stream needs to be diverted (waste diversion rate), with benchmarks of 50% & 70% along the way to be considered "zero waste".
(Source: www.grrn.org/page/what-zero-waste)
However, given diverse infrastructure and regional limitations, Western's zero waste may only be a 75% WDR. It is important to know that institutions across the nation will have varying degrees of zero waste and that Western is committed to exploring what those metrics may be.
ZERO WASTE:
- Redesigns the current, one-way industrial system into a circular system modeled on nature's successful strategies
- Challenges ineffiecent designed business systems that use too many resources
- Addresses, through job creation and civic participation, increasing waste of human resources and erosion of democracy
- Helps communities achieve a local economy that operates efficiently, sustains good jobs, and provides a measure of self-sufficiency
- Aims to eliminate rather than manage waste