Waste
Introduction
We need to respond quickly to the growing waste crisis now confronting Irish society. Rather than investing in expensive resource-destruction technologies, the Irish Government needs to adopt a more sustainable approach to the recovery of materials for re-use or recycling. In a natural eco-system, there is a balance where the wastes from one process become the resources for other processes. Nothing is wasted. In a consumer society, however, waste is an accepted part of life. The Green Party believes that we need to reverse this trend and to avoid leaving future generations with a horrific waste legacy.
The political alternative to the current ?bury it or burn it? approach is to fundamentally change the system of production and consumption that produces ?waste? in the first place . The Green Party supports a new model of ?Zero Waste?. This is an innovative and environmentally responsible model that is being implemented internationally and offers exciting possibilities for the development of local economies based on recycling and materials recovery.