The GrassRoots Recycling Network has a vision of the world where waste is not waste - it is a resource.
GRRN is the leading voice calling for Zero Waste (ZW) in the
United States by promoting the message that we must go "beyond
recycling" and go upstream to the headwaters of the waste stream which
is the industrial designer's desk.
Zero Waste means not only 100% recovery of society's discards, but also a redesign of the products and packaging of our lives such that everything produced for our consumer economy is non-toxic and designed to be recovered for re-use, recycling or composting.
GrassRoots Recycling Network is a national network of waste reduction activists and recycling professionals. GRRN sets ambitious standards for Zero Waste goals and policies. They provide opportunities for on-going participation in campaigns and build coalitions to achieve zero waste policies, businesses and communities. They have a valuable website and an active email listserve (called GreenYes) of many hundreds of knowledgeable experts in both downstream recovery and upstream clean production issues.
What is Zero Waste?
GRRN
developed the core message of Zero Waste in the mid-1990's as the new
vision of the grassroots recycling movement, and has been successful in
using that theme to connect recyclers, innovative corporate leaders,
activists, and others both nationally and globally.
GRRN's Zero Waste
message combines visionary thinking with real-world practice to go beyond recycling,
and in the process have described some simple, important solutions to
many pressing issues, such as
- corporate accountability
- local economic development
- air and water pollution
- resource depletion
CONTACT INFO:
PO Box 282
Cotati, CA 94931
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