Driving Zero Waste with EPR
September 17, 2011 at 04:56PM
Sustainability 2030 in Material Flows, Waste, extended producer responsibility, landfill, material cycling, material flow, solid waste, waste flow

Extended Producer Responsibility policies could drive the transformation of material flows in our economy from the expensive and ultimately catastrophic one-way, linear flows from ground to product to land fill, to the infinite reuse loop of cyclical flows. Along with shifting to 100% renewable energy and organic agricultural practices, shifting to the infinite value harvest of cyclical flows is one of the keys to creating a sustainable regenerative economy. In the meantime, "The US can overcome thirty years of stagnation in waste management policy and divert more than 70% of solid waste from landfill, according to a White Paper just released by Natural Logic, Inc." Read the press release and then Natural Logic's white paper.

Article originally appeared on Strategic Regenerative Sustainability (http://www.ssi2030.com/).
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