'Zero Waste Europe': "Zero Waste is about minimising the residual waste"

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"Europe imports five times more energy and resources than it exports. Hence, most of the trash that we bury or burn in Europe is not 'ours'.

"[In the future, perhaps they] ... are not always going to be there for us to use. In a world with finite resources, and where emerging economies use more and more resources, we Europeans will have to learn to make more with less, if we want to keep our comfort standards.

"This is a radical change; what matters today is not labour productivity – as it has been since the industrial revolution - but the material productivity. Europe has to dramatically increase the efficiency with which it handles its resources, and burning or burying them is not sensible."