The aim is to raise awareness among European citizens about sustainable resource and waste management through a simple slogan: reduce, reuse and recycle. The participation of a wide range of audiences, such as public authorities, private companies, civil society and citizens themselves, is encouraged. Waste reduction is a big issue nowadays that everyone needs to take it seriously and hopefully with some attention we can solve many problems that is related to it.

Preventing Hazardous waste and its importance

The Thematic Focus for this year is that of hazardous waste. It poses a greater risk to our health and our environment when we compare it to other types of waste. Thus, it is even more important to reduce our consumption of products with hazardous contents as well as make sure that they are properly disposed of. In 2018, it is time to detox the use of such products in our nearest surroundings such as bathrooms, kitchens and garages!

Reduce, reuse, and recycle

Waste reduction revolves around three R’s which we are going to explain it.

Reduce

This calls for using resources that are just enough to cater to your needs for instance building a smaller house. This is an effective way of conserving resources as it also lowers the costs. This can be achieved through attaining accuracy when ordering to ensure that there is no waste or no material is sitting on the site for long periods that it is damaged.

Reuse

Here, you will do well to reuse existing materials and buildings effectively reducing the need for resources while lowering waste volumes and saving money. A huge percentage of resources are incorporated in the construction of homes owing to the mixed materials that are used yet the end destination for most of them are landfills. Thus, renovating a house is a much better option than bringing it down to put up another one because a negligible fraction of the old house may be reused.

Recycle

Using left over resources or those resources that have reached the end of their life minimizes the need for new materials as well as lowers the volume that ends up in landfills. Thus, it is advisable to use materials that are recyclable as this creates a market for the resources that are recycled while also raising the price that recyclers pay for resources that are recovered even as the recycling viability increases.