Westminster
The organisations, groups and individuals that have signed this charter are committed to achieving Zero Waste in the UK by 2020. Zero Waste is a new concept being pioneered by leading corporations, municipalities, and now provincial and national governments. It entails re-designing products and changing the way waste is handled, so products last longer, materials are recycled, or, in the case of organics, composted. Waste is in the process of being designed away.
The immediate imperatives behind the drive for Zero Waste are environmental. There is a new awareness of the dangers to human health of waste landfills and incinerators. Landfills are major producers of methane, and polluters of water tables. Incinerators produce greenhouse gases, and are a source of heavy metals, particulates and dioxins. Zero Waste strikes at the cause of this pollution.
It also lightens the ever-growing pressure on the world
