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Title: Zero Waste


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Zero Waste
Partnership
Presentation by Chris Burger
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DIFFERENT TIMES DEMAND DIFFERENT QUESTIONS
20th CENTURY WASTE MANAGEMENT
21st CENTURY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
How do we handle our discarded resources in ways
which do not deprive future generations of some,
if not all, of their value?
How do we get rid of our waste efficiently with
minimum damage to our health and the environment?
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DIFFERENT TIMES DEMAND DIFFERENT QUESTIONS
20th CENTURY WASTE MANAGEMENT
21st CENTURY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Key Issue was SAFETY
Key Issue is SUSTAINABILIY
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Zero Waste
  • Zero Waste is a goal that emulates sustainable
    natural cycles, where all discarded materials are
    resources for others to use.
  • Zero Waste means designing and managing products
    and processes to reduce the volume and toxicity
    of waste and materials, conserve and recover all
    resources, and not burn or bury them.
  • Implementing Zero Waste eliminates the
    discharges to land, water or air that represent a
    threat to planetary, human, animal, or plant
    health.

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Zero Waste
From an organizing standpoint, it is extremely
helpful to not simply be against something, but
articulate a vision of what you are for.
Zero Waste is such a vision.
If you are not for Zero Waste,
how much waste are you for?
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Zero Waste Partnership
ZW TEAM
ZW Committee
National Sierra Club
ZW Partnership
ZW Community
ZW Community
ZW Community
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Zero Waste Partnership
  • Purpose to share ideas and combine our efforts
    not only to effect change within our own
    communities, but to join with each other and
    other environmental groups throughout the US and
    the world to reform how we utilize resources
    going forward to formulate a system that is
    truly sustainable.
  • Looking for Communities that commit to
  • Building a Zero Waste Infrastructure
  • Advocating for EPR (Extended Producer
    Responsibility)

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Zero Waste Community
Adopt a Zero Waste Goal and Plan for It
  • Adopt a resolution to establish a community-wide
    Zero Waste goal and a commitment to develop a
    plan to implement that goal. Do as separate
    resolution or part of climate change plans.
  • Involve residents and businesses actively in the
    development of a Zero Waste Plan, including
    extensive education, outreach and input on the
    Plans proposed policies, programs and
    facilities. Establish interim goals and a target
    year to achieve Zero Waste goal (or darn close).

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Zero Waste Community
Resolution Calling for a Goal of Zero Waste
  • Resolved, that the ltyour Chapter or Groupgt
    advocates for a cradle-to-cradle Zero Waste goal
    for ltyour city, county or stategt that follows the
    Pollution Prevention Hierarchy of Reduce, Reuse,
    Recycle, while planning for eventual elimination
    conventional waste disposal systems, and be it
  • Further Resolved, that the ltyour Chapter or
    Groupgt advocates for ltyour city, county or stategt
    to implement EPR programs and policies, and be it
  • Further Resolved, that the ltyour Chapter or
    Groupgt establish a Zero Waste ltCommittee or Task
    Forcegt to further these goals.

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Zero Waste Community
RESOLUTION FOR ZERO WASTE
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the
ltCity/County/Organizationgt hereby adopts a Zero
Waste goal and directs staff to return with a
Zero Waste Plan to implement that goal within one
year.
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Zero Waste Community
Know Your Waste and Design It Out
  • Evaluate materials discarded according to the
    Urban Ore 12 Master Categories of discarded
    materials, determine how and where materials are
    discarded.
  • Identify service opportunities where new
    services are needed to fill gaps in current
    reuse, recycling and composting services.
  • Identify current waste elimination, reuse,
    recycling and composting policies, programs and
    facilities. Select additional policies, programs
    and facilities from a menu of best practices
    around the world. Prioritize them according to
    local economic and political conditions.

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Zero Waste Community
Hold Producers Responsible
  • Ask product designers and marketers to consider
    ZW a critical design criterion.
  • Hold businesses financially or physically
    responsible for their products and packaging
    manufactured and sold. For retailers, ask them
    to take back products and packaging for problem
    materials not included in residential recycling
    programs. For contractors and developers,
    encourage adaptive reuse and deconstruction, and
    require recycling of construction, demolition and
    land-clearing debris.
  • Work with other local governments and businesses
    to build useful alliances and share successes.
    Develop a waste exchange. Engage industry, make
    them aware of materials and products that are
    problems for the community, and establish a
    process for resolving those problems.
  • Ban products or packages from being sold or
    require businesses and institutions to take back
    designated products and packaging sold that are
    toxic in their manufacture, use, or disposal,
    and/or are not currently recyclable in the area.

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Zero Waste Community
Adopt Incentives and New Rules
  • Adopt incentives and new rules in Ordinances,
    contracts, franchises, permits, zoning, General
    Plans and garbage rate structures to make it
    cheapest to stop discarding materials, and
    reusing, recycling or composting them.
  • Environmentally preferable purchasing guidelines
    can be adopted to reduce resource use and cut air
    and water emissions, including the Precautionary
    Principle for all government purchases.

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Zero Waste Community
Support Green Business and Green Jobs
  • Ask local businesses to adopt Zero Waste goals,
    to develop Zero Waste plans, to adhere to Zero
    Waste Business principles, to meet waste
    diversion targets, and to source separate
    designated materials that can be reused, recycled
    or composted.
  • Support existing reuse, recycling and composting
    businesses and nonprofit organizations and help
    them expand. Develop locally owned and
    independent infrastructure on an open,
    competitive basis.
  • Develop Resource Recovery Parks to provide
    locations for expansion of reuse, recycling and
    composting businesses.
  • Fund community Zero Waste initiatives with fees
    levied on the transport, transfer and disposal of
    wastes and by leveraging the investments of the
    private sector.

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Resource Recovery Park
Repair Reuse Center
Residual Separation Stabilization Research
Center
C D
Composting Facility
Public Entrance
Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHARM)
electronics, appliances, etc.
Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
Hauler Entrance
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Extended Producer Responsibility
  • Cradle-to-Cradle
  • Producers (or first importers) must have an
    approved plan for how they will recover their
    products when consumers are done with them, as a
    condition for sale in a jurisdiction.

Connects product design to material recovery.
www.sierraclub.org/committees/zerowaste/
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Extended Producer Responsibility
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING EXTENDED PRODUCER
RESPONSIBILITY
  • THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Broome County
    intends to encourage the State of New York to
    transfer responsibility for the costs of managing
    certain products at end-of-life to producers
    (brand owners and first importers) and be it
  • FURTHER RESOLVED, that Broome County urges the
    New York State Legislature to enact framework EPR
    legislation which will give producers the
    incentive to design products to make them less
    toxic and easier to repair, reuse and recycle
    and be it
  • FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Deputy Commissioner of
    the Broome County Division of Solid Waste
    Management is requested to send letters to the
    State Legislature and State associations and to
    use other advocacy methods to urge support for
    EPR legislation and be it
  • FURTHER RESOLVED, that the State of New York and
    its member agencies are urged to include EPR
    language, such as specifying product and
    packaging collection and recycling requirements,
    in contracts for commodities.

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Listserves
  • ZWPartners_at_googlegroups.com This is a listserv
    for activists working in communities on
    implementing zero waste and extended producer
    responsibility practices and policies in homes
    and at work in schools, businesses, town
    councils. It is for sharing strategies, success
    stories and challenges.  This listserv is for
    activists committed to the principles of zero
    waste and extended producer responsibility as
    adopted by the Sierra Club Board of Directors in
    2008.  It is not a discussion list for debating
    benefits of landfilling, incineration, or any
    technology developed to derive energy from
    unsorted municipal solid waste.  Individuals who
    persist in debating these subjects will be
    dropped from this list and directed to the Sierra
    Club Zero Waste Forum. Although started by Sierra
    Club activists, this group is open to zero waste
    activists everywhere.
  • CONS-EQST-WASTE-FORUM_at_LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG
    Listserve designed to share zero waste
    information and discuss zero waste and EPR
    topics.

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Web Sites
  • http//www.sierraclub.org/committees/zerowaste/
  • http//connect.sierraclub.org/teams/

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Reducing OurWaste Production
Not zero waste
but pretty darn close
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Earth Day Commitment
We will not buy anything that we are unwilling to
take Responsibility for
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Family -Picture
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17 Years of Waste
Our Failures!
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Extended Producer Responsibility
Company should not make anything that it is
unwilling to take Responsibility for
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Extended Producer Responsibility
  • If product cannot be Recycled,
  • or
  • If product cannot be Composted

Industry should not be making it
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There is NO away
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Chris W. Burger 110 Walters Road Whitney Point,
NY 13862 Phone 607-692-3442 Email
cwburger_at_frontiernet.net
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