Agenda 21 and waste management
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Agenda 21 requires governments, industry and the public to make efforts to reduce the amount of waste by:
- encouraging recycling;
- reducing wasteful packaging of products;
- introducing products that are more environmentally sound.
At the moment, the amount of waste produced in the developed world is not sustainable. For example, 99% of the materials used to make goods in the USA becomes waste within six weeks of sale, including the goods themselves. Most waste is buried underground in la...
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