Renew Fairfield

Resource Center

Carbon Neutral Initiative

Citizen Action Committees

Fairfield Green Club

Resources

Sustainable Waste Management

The most important step towards creating a sustainable waste management system is eliminating the concept of waste. For a system to be sustainable, it cannot have waste. Better to have a resource management system, where the focus is on transforming, harnessing, and benefiting from the materials received, rather than poorly disposing of them. The concept of waste should be eliminated in all layers of life, from industrial, to commercial, to residential. This will allow us to tap into a wealth of resources that were previously overlooked.

Probable Topics:
water treatment
black/grey water systems
vericomposting (worms)


Suggested Reading:
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Read the short version here
http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/waste=food.html
http://www.solviva.com/

Ben Stallings01 December 2007, 05:43

Here's a persuasive column about the advantages of handkerchiefs over paper tissues: http://blog.earthlingshandbook.org/2007/11/30/handkerchief-season-is-here.aspx

Add Comment 
Sign as Author 
Enter code:

Page last modified on December 01, 2007, at 05:43 AM