Zero Waste by Robin Murray, Greenpeace Environmental Trust 2002

Although its initial focus would be on local authority
recycling, it would be expected to diversify and invest in
commercial and industrial recycling projects (which
commonly have a much shorter payback than the
municipal sector).
A supply side Investment Trust would have an interest in
p romoting training programmes for the management and
operation of intensive recycling systems in its area, either as
p a rt of existing courses and institutions or as a stand-alone
Z e ro Waste Academy. An Academy, like a specialist technical
school on the continent, would combine teaching and
re s e a rch on the full range of Zero Waste issues, and act as a
catalyst for these issues in other universities and colleges.
With WRAP promoting the demand side, and the
Investment Trusts facilitating the supply, the UK would
have the potential to implement a programme of
conversion to intensive recycling which would be
economic and innovative. This would provide a step
change in the movement towards a Zero Waste economy.
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