Supporting waste reuse in small communities

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 establishing appropriate programmes to support small communities' waste reuse and recycling industries in developing countries.

1. Involving local populations
2. Including resource recovery in local authority waste management plans
3. Assisting waste and recycling in the informal sector

1. Recycling materials
2. Maximizing waste reuse

1. Ship recycling
2. Developing new recycling technologies
3. Creating domestic waste recycling schemes

1. Involving local communities in pollution control

1. Wastage
2. Nonlocal