RE-THINK RE-USE

摘要

The waste prevention programme for England was published at the end of 2013, aiming to encourage a more sustainable approach to the use of materials and management of waste throughout society. CIWM has recently published its research findings on the circular economy; there is clearly a will to reuse more... but there is also a great deal of uncertainty about how to do this in practice. There is a thriving reuse sector in the UK already: the charitable and voluntary sector has been taking donations from homes and businesses for decades and there is an excellent track record of keeping goods in circulation in the wider economy. Donated materials are, of course, not "waste".