Zero Waste BC Style

Also at World Changing, on overview of British Columbia's efforts to be truly zero waste. Like everyone else, they're running out of land fill space. The efforts include composting, reuse and recycling. They are also, critically, bringing producers into the loop giving them responsibility for dealing with the waste from the products they create. In the long run, we need to redesign our entire manufacturing process so that every component is either reused or can be composted back to dirt, as best put forward in McDonough and Braugart's Cradle to Cradle. This new industrial revolution makes perfect sense. As it stands, we spend enormous energy and effort extracting resources that are inherently finite in nature, then burn them or toss them in the ground where they will be poisoning us and our children for countless generations.