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Being "zero waste" means that we adopt steps towards reducing personal waste and minimizing our environmental impact.

Our community places a major focus on the 5 R's: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. We practice this by reducing consumption, choosing reusable goods, recycling, composting, and helping each other improve.

We also recognize excess CO₂, other GHG emissions, and general resource usage as waste.

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How Taiwan Has Achieved One of the Highest Recycling Rates in the World — Once nicknamed “Garbage Island,” the region now has a success story to share (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are they doing with plastics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you read the article, it tells you that they collect recyclable material, then provide to firms which produce products from the usable material, and the remainder goes to landfills or is incinerated. I think the punchline is that by reducing their waste production and developing a better waste management system, they've been able to clean up their island.

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