Two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste generated annually. The numbers keep rising, and the current narrow focus on recycling does next to nothing to change that. Enter: Waste reduction and minimisation and our new friend Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
Listen to interviews with Libby Peake, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance, in London and Rustan Nilsson, environmental educator of SYSAV, a waste management facility in Malmö, Sweden. Your humble hosts: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist.
In this episode of Love Zero Waste you’ll learn more about creating and leading change at the policy, as well as citizen level. We’re diving deeper into the possibilities of drastically reducing waste through shifting the responsibility from consumers to designers and manufacturers, of cutting out all single-use items (not just those made out of plastics!) and through creating stricter laws and shifting how we think about waste and all the stuff we surround ourselves with.
Sources:
SYSAV, https://www.sysav.se
Green Alliance, https://www.green-alliance.org.uk
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gove-launches-landmark-blueprint-for-resources-and-waste
World Bank, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30317
Credits:
Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz
Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth
Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se
Jingle: Michael Steinkellner, Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com
Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz
Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. Visit us on www.thegoodtribe.com and www.circulous.biz and @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram. Spread the love using #lovezerowaste. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations.
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