Reduce waste Moving toward zero-waste economies

💡 Translation: Products should last, not be designed to break.

🛠 Mandate repairable, durable designs for all goods.

🏛 Ban products designed for premature failure.

💡 Translation: Every product should account for its true environmental cost.

📊 Require full life-cycle assessments before products are approved.

📉 Implement progressive pricing for waste-heavy industries.

💡 Translation: Make recycling and composting the norm, not the exception.

♻️ Require all products to be designed for recyclability, using easily separable and reusable materials.

🍃 Implement deposit-return schemes for packaging to encourage recycling.

🌱 Make composting mandatory for organic waste—no more food scraps in landfills.

🏛 Expand community-based recycling and composting programs, making them easy and accessible.

💥 If it can’t be reused, it shouldn’t be produced.

💡 Translation: Repairing shouldn’t be a privilege—it should be the default.

🔧 Legal protections for independent repair businesses and DIY repairs.

🏛 Require manufacturers to provide spare parts, repair manuals, and open-source designs.

🏠 Expand access to repair spaces like repair cafés, tool libraries, bike kitchens, and open workshops.

💥 No more throwaway culture—fix what we have and stop wasting resources.

💡 Translation: No more greenwashing—let’s see the real impact of what we consume.

🏷 Require clear, standardised labels showing a product’s environmental footprint.

🌍 Include carbon emissions, resource use, waste impact, and social conditions in production.

🏛 Hold corporations accountable for misleading sustainability claims.

💥 If companies are making a mess, they should be forced to label it.