Zero Waste leads to plenty of opportunity

China’s ban on the importation of our waste gives us the chance to develop new ways of dealing with it, write Mary O’Leary, Stephen Thornhill, and Brendan Richardson.

Recent Irish Examiner editorial rightly raised the issue that we need to do much more to address the problem of waste.The editorial referred to a recent decision by the Chinese government to implement a ban on the importing of Western waste/recyclable material to China.

While China will continue to strategically import certain types of recyclable materials for use in their reuse industries, this partial ban, along with the fact that landfill capacity is no longer a viable option, highlights the urgency of our situation. We need a proper