Zero Waste Committee

Few environmental issues get the wholesale respect of all sectors of society—environmental groups, municipalities, politicians, business, and the average citizen—as recycling.  What’s not to like?  With a slight change in your daily habits you and your family or the small business down the street could be having a monumental effect on making our environment sustainable. New business can be created from the things we throw away today.  

Imagine taking everything we potentially throw away—steel, iron, paper, cardboard, computers, batteries, appliances, even household scraps—and reusing everything. I mean everything, so that nothing gets wasted. Imagine a society where everyone feels compelled to scour their property for items that could be recycled.  And, imagine a vast infrastructure in place to make sure each and every item gets reused—instead of getting ending up in a landfill to poison our land and water and air.  Sound fantastic? Actually, it’s not such a wild new idea. If you lived through World War II, you witnessed this massive recycling movement.   

We have the knowhow. We know that, where there’s a need, there’s a way.  The way is called recycling.

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This short online video gets at the heart of Zero Waste:  

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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• Zero Waste Committee Main Page > Sierra Club Welcome to the new recycling movement for the 21st Century and to the work of the new Zero Waste Committee! Zero Waste is a design principle for the 21st century; Producer Responsibility Recycling is the means for achieving a deep transformation of wasteful production and consumption. We aim to lead the transition from traditional end-of-pipe waste "diversion" programs provided by local governments to "cradle to cradle" recycling systems designed, financed, and managed by producers, in order to drive improvements in product design, stimulate local economies and reduce climate change impacts of transportation- and energy-intensive product chains. Phasing out landfilling and incinerating discarded resources is prerequisite to Zero Waste; hence the committee also coordinates Club work on waste disposal issues.    
• The Sierra Club's policy for reducing waste is based on Zero Waste.  
• RochesterEnvironment.com's Recycle page: Recycling Rochester | Recycle everything | Rochester news | RochesterEnvironment.com  
• Our Zero Waste (Or Pretty Darn Close)program with Chris Burger on November 6th, 2008.  
• Earth Resource Foundation (ERF) Founded in 1999, Earth Resource Foundation (ERF) is an environmental educational non-profit organization developed to empower the general public with the resources needed to make environmentally sustainable choices and changes.
• Activist Network Home - Conservation - Clubhouse - Sierra Club
• Conservatree - Recycled and Environmental Paper Information

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Zero Waste is a design principle for the 21st century; Producer Responsibility Recycling is the means for achieving a deep transformation of wasteful production and consumption.

We aim to lead the transition from traditional end-of-pipe waste "diversion" programs provided by local governments to "cradle to cradle" recycling systems designed, financed, and managed by producers, in order to drive improvements in product design, stimulate local economies and reduce climate change impacts of transportation- and energy-intensive product chains.

Phasing out landfilling and incinerating discarded resources is prerequisite to Zero Waste; hence the committee also coordinates Club work on waste disposal issues. The Sierra Club's policy for reducing waste is based on Zero Waste

* Earth911.com - Find Recycling Centers and Learn How To Recycle In our recycling database, we can help you find over 100,000 recycling locations across the country. With information provided by local governments, industry insiders, organizations and everyday consumers, you can recycle hundreds of products from packing peanuts to computers. We know where you need to go to get things done. We also continue to maintain our bilingual hot line, 1-800-CLEANUP.  

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