strategy
Providing incentives for waste reuse and recycling
Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends the review and reform of national waste policies to provide incentives for waste reuse and recycling. In particular it recommends that governments, according to their possibilities and with the help of multilateral cooperation, should provide economic or regulatory incentives to to encourage industry to invest in preventive and/or recycling technologies so as to ensure environmentally sound management of all hazardous wastes, including recyclable wastes, and to encourage waste minimization investment.
Claim:
It does not make sense to treat recycling as if it is the start of a new industrial process. Post-consumption recyclable products should arrive at the recyclers with some kind of tax credit. This would encourage the recycling business, in addition to giving greater quality to recycled products.
Broader:
Providing incentivesImproving national incentives for waste managementUsing economic instruments for sustainable developmentCreating domestic waste recycling schemes Narrower:
Introducing environmental taxesProviding incentives to local authorities to recycle wastesUpgrading status and skills of managers in waste management agenciesProviding incentives to improve the marketability of recyclable wastes Facilitates:
Recycling materialsMaximizing waste reuseDeveloping new recycling technologiesAddressing problems of social marginalizationAddressing problems of social marginalization Facilitated by:
Marketing compost Values:
WastageIncentivesDisincentive Subjects:
Economics → Resource utilizationSocial Activity → Employment conditions
Societal Problems → Waste
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
