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'''Zero waste''' is "a practical theory of how to wring maximum efficiency from the use of resources". <ref>[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=18 FAQ] by The Zero Waste Institute</ref> 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". <ref name="FAUX">[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Faux-Zero-Waste.pdf THE FAUX ZERO WASTE MOVEMENT IS SPREADING] by Paul Palmer </ref> | '''Zero waste''' is "a practical theory of how to wring maximum efficiency from the use of resources". <ref>[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=18 FAQ] by Paul Palmer, via The Zero Waste Institute</ref> 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". <ref name="FAUX">[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Faux-Zero-Waste.pdf THE FAUX ZERO WASTE MOVEMENT IS SPREADING] by Paul Palmer </ref> | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=20 Paul Palmer] created Zero Waste Systems Inc in 1974,<ref name="FAUX"/> and the term "had never been used publicly" before | [http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=20 Paul Palmer] created Zero Waste Systems Inc in 1974,<ref name="FAUX"/> and Palmer states that the term zero waste "had never been used publicly" before he started using it in the early 1970s. <ref>[http://zerowasteinstitute.org/?page_id=202 History] by Paul Palmer, via The Zero Waste Institute</ref> | ||
== Recycling == | == Recycling == | ||
Revision as of 02:44, 18 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 1974,[2] and Palmer states that the term zero waste "had never been used publicly" before he started using it in the early 1970s. [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 significantly less to recycle than we do now.
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