Maximizing waste reuse

Converting waste to reusable material.

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.

Denmark has introduced a tax of Danish Kr 195 per tonne for waste which is not recycled.

1. Utilizing
2. Reducing waste
3. Managing wastes
4. Intensifying existing resource use

1. Using recycled materials
2. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel
3. Reclaiming land with solid waste
4. Improving current waste reuse operations

1. Improving hazardous waste management
2. Developing sustainable landfill practices

1. Treating wastes
2. Transferring recycling technology in development aid programmes
3. Training in waste reuse and recycling for urban managers
4. Teaching benefits and civic duty for waste reuse and recycling at school
5. Supporting waste reuse in small communities
6. Supporting investment in waste reuse and recycling
7. Supporting community waste recycling
8. Strengthening international guidelines for the safe reuse of waste
9. Providing special grants for research on innovative recycling techniques
10. Providing public information on waste issues
11. Providing incentives for waste reuse and recycling
12. Providing ideas for recycling household items
13. Preparing best practice guides for waste recycling
14. Marketing compost
15. Including resource recovery in local authority waste management plans
16. Improving national incentives for waste management
17. Implementing waste management policies for waste reuse and recycling
18. Identifying potential markets for recycled products
19. Funding research on waste reuse and recycling
20. Facilitating transfer of waste reuse and recycling technology
21. Extending producer responsibility
22. Evaluating effectiveness of waste recycling techniques
23. Emphasizing reusable packaging
24. Developing new recycling technologies
25. Creating domestic waste recycling schemes
26. Collecting wastes
27. Changing standards that discriminate against recycled materials
28. Assisting waste and recycling in the informal sector
29. Assessing national programmes for waste reuse and recycling
30. Applying measures for waste disposal costs to be paid by the waste generators

1. Waste of resources
2. Underutilized wastes
3. Underutilized agricultural wastes
4. Insufficient recycling of materials

1. Wastage
2. Unused
3. Unproductivity
4. Underuse
5. Counterproductivity

1. Agenda 21