Resolution for Zero Waste
WHEREAS
The placement of materials in waste
disposal facilities, such as landfills
and incinerators, causes damage to human
health, wastes natural resources and/or
wrongly transfers liabilities to future
generations, and
The elimination of specified types of
waste for disposal, also known as
disposal bans, will protect states from
waste importation from other states and
nations, and
Consumers are currently forced to assume
the high financial cost of collecting,
recycling, and disposing of materials,
and
Tax subsidies for waste and virgin
materials send the wrong economic signals
to both consumers and producers, and
A resource recovery based economy will
create and sustain more productive and
meaningful jobs, and
Increasingly, U.S. and international
governments and organizations are
adopting the policy that the financial
responsibility of collecting, recycling,
and disposing of materials belongs with
producers, and
Producers should design products to
ensure that they can be safely recycled
back into the marketplace or nature, and
Most types of waste streams can be easily
eliminated through across-the-board
minimum recycling content laws, the use
of non-toxic alternatives in product
design, and local composting facilities,
and
Recognizing that some materials are
necessary for the public health and
national security, in which case, storage
is the only safe alternative, and
Recognizing that voluntary recycling
goals have not achieved waste
elimination, and
Government is ultimately responsible for
establishing criteria needed to eliminate
waste, so that manufacturers produce and
businesses sell materials that can be
safely recycled or composted,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT
[City/ County/ Organization] supports the
creation of a Zero Waste Plan in order to
eliminate waste and pollution in the
manufacture, use, storage, and recycling
of materials
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More info: Please visit this
GrassRoots Recycling Network site - http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/zwmodel.html
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