Are Zero Waste Communities A Viable Option for Achieving Sustainability in The United States?
The zero waste philosophy goes beyond recycling and strives to eliminate waste by reducing consumption and ensuring that products are designed to be Reused, Repaired and Recycled back into nature or the marketplace. The considerable success that communities and firms pursuing a zero waste philosophy have enjoyed suggests that the elimination of the very concept of waste may not be as utopian an agenda as it first seems. by Aysu Katun, Green Economy Post Imagine a world where the concept of “waste” does not exist. A world in which nothing gets discarded, every industrial product gets reassembled into something useful, each unit of energy is offset and anything and everything is a renewable resource. This is the design principle and environmental philosophy of “zero waste”. Zero waste tries to mimic natural systems where there is no such thing as waste since what is waste to one species is food or a resource to another, and there are no toxic substances to cause harm to future generation
