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Reading Sustainability Centre

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Waste

 [This page is just a mock up to aid discussion about the format of the final version …. Welcome if you’ve just happened upon it! Do drop us a line with any thoughts you have on what the page should cover.]

  • We live in a world of finite resources
  • It doesn’t really make sense to unnecessarily waste resources
  • But hasn’t it always been that way? Why is waste suddenly such a big issue?
  • Statistics showing the scale of the challenge, at a global and national level
  • Is change possible?

How is Reading doing?

  • Government/EU targets, and Reading’s performance
  • Local plans and policies
  • Future visions

The challenge of waste: reducing, reusing, recycling and redesigning

  • Towards a circular economy

Could Reading ever be a Zero Waste town?

  • Examples of other towns that have set themselves the challenge of reaching zero waste to landfill (often as a way of resisting proposals for construction of an incinerator in their community)

Local action on waste

  • Who is doing interesting stuff in Reading and further afield?
    • Community composting?
    • Churches collecting plastic milk bottle tops
    • Schools?

Related posts

  • New Beginnings open a fridge to the community 06/07/2019
  • How are Reading’s Eateries doing on the Single-use Plastics Front? 14/02/2019
  • Breaking free of single use plastic in Reading – What is going on? 16/05/2018
  • No need to #refusethestraw in Hong Kong: Drinks come with a metal straw as standard 25/03/2018
  • Don’t blame plastics! 25/02/2018

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