RBE Roundtable in Mexico
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The Recycling-Based-Economy (RBE) Roundtable in Mexico was a part of the APEC project, Capacity Building for a Recycling-based Economy (RBE) in APEC. This project was proposed by the APEC Human Resource Development Working Group's Capacity Building Network. It aimed to launch the challenging task of establishing an APEC-wide system for sustainable development through identifying issues and challenges of implementing the 3 R's (Reuse, Reduce & Recycle), sharing best practices of recycling systems used in selected industries, and establishing a network of experts to continue to share information and build a workable RBE system throughout APEC.
Resources from the Roundtable:
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Canada produces about 1 tonne of waste per capita, and dispose of about 800 kg/capita each year. In 2002, 24 million tonnes of waste were disposed of. Canada is an international leader in developing new and novel approaches to residential waste management. The Blue Box recycling system has been adopted by communities throughout North America and world wide, and is a Canadian environmental innovation success story. | |
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Trends and Constraints for Waste Recycling: A Comparison of Developed and Developing Countries |
Both interest and desire are intensifying to increase recycling rates of solid wastes. However, the success at implementation of a strong recycling program is heavily influenced by the costs of waste recycling, and the availability of the budgets to implement an effective program. As a consequence of different levels of costs and budgets available, there are substantial differences between recycling initiatives currently being obtained in the developed, versus the developing world. |
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For the last decade, waste management in Chile has been a concern throughout the country’s different social sectors, although without effective and long-term solutions. The complexity of the matter is expressed in the multiple dimensions that it involves: institutional, economic, sanitary, technological, environmental, territorial, social, and political. | |
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Japan’s economic system has operated on the basis of mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal, but the growing shortage of domestic final waste disposal sites and increasing resource constraints are boosting public awareness of waste and recycling issues and the global environment. Now, the public is calling for the development of a zero-waste society that promotes the ‘environmentalization’ of industry (greater industry sensitivity to the environment), material circulation, and the ‘3 R's’ of reduce (reducing the amount of waste generated), reuse, and recycle. | |
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Manufacturer-Led Resource Recycling Network in Asia-Pacific Region |
<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1207683865493_783" />PowerPoint presentation detailing Japanese system of Manufacturer-led Resource Recycling. |
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PowerPoint presentation about recycling waste tires in Mexico. | |
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In March 1994, the ministers of the APEC economies adopted a Vision Statement and Core Principles Framework on the Environment to combine economic and environmental issues. The Statement for Action, announced in 1995, confirmed the integration of environmental and sustainable development issues in APEC’s activities. In 1997, the Canada Declaration stated: "Achieving sustainable development is at the heart of APEC's mandate" In this context, promoting the three “R”s (Reuse, Reduce & Recycle) is an indispensable requirement to make sustainable development a reality and to strengthen the integration of economic and environmental concerns in APEC’s economies. | |
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From Waste Management to Value Recovery Current Recycling Trends in the USA |
Recycling in the United States (US) has made some significant progress over the past few decades. American households and industry are recovering the materials value in increasing amounts of municipal solid waste (MSW). These increases manifest in two principal ways: greater diversity of materials and US communities are recycling a greater percentage of total MSW each year. In addition, the US is making strides in the next generation of materials recovery, extended producer responsibility (EPR) and product take-back strategies that are bringing increasingly complex products back for valuable reuse and/or materials recovery. |
