Waste Reduction

Synergize for Advanced Solutions

What are the next steps in reducing waste?  This group is devoted to developing more advanced solutions to reduce, reduce, and recycle more effectively.  How does your region reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics, toxics, batteries, techno-trash, and other difficult-to-recycle items?  To what extent is the difficulty a product of not having technical people ...learn more

GROUP DETAILS

Created: Dec 04, 2007

Updated: Nov 21, 2009

Membership: Open

Semi-Private

Group Info 

Name: Waste Reduction
 
Alternate Name: Reduce, reuse, and recycle creatively
 
Tagline: Synergize for Advanced Solutions
 
Address: .Global
 
Scope: international
 

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What are the next steps in reducing waste?  This group is devoted to developing more advanced solutions to reduce, reduce, and recycle more effectively. 

How does your region reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics, toxics, batteries, techno-trash, and other difficult-to-recycle items?  To what extent is the difficulty a product of not having technical people participating?  How do you dispose of hazardous waste and toxic products?

What worked and what didn't work?  Please post your links and comments.


Recycling isn't enough.  (Dumping has increased by 2.5 times since the 1970's.)


Please post web links to our "resources" list.  Add your nonprofits and government agencies to our "organizations" list.

See also Zero Waste Group on WiserEarth.   If you've already created a group addressing similar issues, please add it to the "related groups" list.

Thanks for your work in waste reduction.