What are the 5 rules of zero waste?
The 5 R’s provide a new scheme for dealing with waste in our lives by helping us focus on our habits Lees meer
What does zero waste mean?
Matthias Jansen
2025-10-03 20:50:49
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Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.
Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.
Zero Waste: The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.
Hendrik Vandenbergh
2025-10-03 18:48:46
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Zero waste is the conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning, and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.
Zero waste is a philosophy aiming to unroot the causes of wastage altogether.
Our planet has always followed zero waste principles.
For thousands of years, up until the industrial era, waste was not a developed concept because most discarded material from civilisations were used as inputs for other processes, retaining their value in a circular way, just like nature does.
Zero waste is not only about decoupling economic activity from environmental destruction – it is, above all, about building resilience and natural capital for future generations.
Zero waste brings us into the 21st century by shifting the focus away from waste management and into proper management of our Earth’s valuable resources.
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How to be more zero waste?
Refuse what you do not need. Reduce what you do need and cannot refuse. Reuse what you consume and Lees meer
Pleun de Boer
2025-10-03 16:38:20
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