Zero Waste Hierarchy
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Unacceptable

Systems and policies which encourage wasting or threaten the environment and human health.

Unacceptable

  1. Don’t allow policies and systems that encourage the Destructive Disposal and/or the destruction of discards
  2. Don’t allow energy and Destructive Disposal systems that are dependent upon the continued production of discards
  3. Don’t allow the Incineration** of discards
  4. Don’t allow discards to be used in products or materials that risk or cause adverse environmental or human health impacts.
  5. Don’t allow chemical processing of discards into fuel** (i.e., Chemical Processing of Plastics to Fuel)
  6. Don’t allow the use of discards in cement kilns