Zero Waste Hierarchy
Zero Waste Hierarchy
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Recycle / Compost

Actions by which discards are mechanically reprocessed into products or materials or biologically processed to return to the soil.

Recycle / Compost

  1. Support and expand systems to keep materials in their original product loop and to protect the full usefulness of the materials
  2. Maintain diversion systems that allow for the highest and best use of materials, including organics
  3. Recycle and use materials for as high a purpose as possible
  4. Develop resilient local markets and uses for collected materials wherever possible
  5. Provide incentives to create clean flows of compost and recycling feedstock
  6. Support and expand composting as close to the generator as possible (prioritizing home, on site or local composting)
  7. Consider industrial composting whenever home/decentralized composting is not possible, or if local conditions require/allow anaerobic digestion
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