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[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=20 Paul Palmer] created Zero Waste Systems Inc in the 1970s, and the term "had never been used publicly" before that. <ref>[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=202 Zero Waste Institute - History]</ref>
[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=20 Paul Palmer] created Zero Waste Systems Inc in the 1970s, and the term "had never been used publicly" before that. <ref>[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=202 Zero Waste Institute - History]</ref>


== References ==
== Recycling ==


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[[Recycling]] is only related to zero waste in the sense that even the most durable products break or wear out eventually. The goal is to design things so that we have much less to recycle than we do now.


== Related ==
== Related ==
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* [[Zero waste]] {{w|Zero waste}}
* [[Zero-waste fashion]] {{w|Zero-waste fashion}}
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Revision as of 08:08, 17 September 2017

Zero waste is "a practical theory of how to wring maximum efficiency from the use of resources". [1] It addresses "...the difficult problem of how to redesign all of society's goods and processes so that nothing is designed for an early obsolescence followed by discard but, instead, is designed in many straightforward ways to be reused perpetually on many levels". [2]

History

Paul Palmer created Zero Waste Systems Inc in the 1970s, and the term "had never been used publicly" before that. [3]

Recycling

Recycling is only related to zero waste in the sense that even the most durable products break or wear out eventually. The goal is to design things so that we have much less to recycle than we do now.

Related

References

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