Including resource recovery in local authority waste management plans

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends enabling local and municipal authorities to mobilize community support for waste reuse and recycling by involving and assisting informal sector waste reuse and recycling operations and undertaking waste management planning that incorporates resource recovery practices.

1. Instigating community resources management
2. Creating waste recycling structures

1. Supporting waste reuse in small communities
2. Establishing local recycling centres

1. Reducing waste
2. Maximizing waste reuse
3. Delegating sustainable development to appropriate level

1. Providing incentives to local authorities to recycle wastes
2. Promoting best value in local authorities

1. Using authoritarianism

1. Wastage
2. Nonlocal
3. Mismanagement
4. Authority