Managing resources
Increasingly, governments around the world are starting to take responsibility for their actions as they start to create policies that will help them to manage their resources in a more sustainable manner.
Waste hierarchy
The waste hierarchy ranks all of the different waste management options into an order of what is best for the environment.
At the top of the pyramid is a reminder that the best way to manage waste is to prevent it from being created in the first place.
If waste is created, then the hierarchy makes a priority for re-use, recycling, recovery and then finally disposal.