John Williams, SVP, National Director – Sustainable Development with HDR Engineering, Inc. shared his work with the Clinton Global Action Network.
John’s presentation, Rethinking Waste and Its Management highlighted key points to work together on waste issues. He stated the action network is a non-partisan, nonprofit initiative. And, this is an initiative that is not a local or domestic issue – it a global issue.
The initiative based on 4 principles – World health, education, poverty and environment and energy. Many of these issues are hard to tackle by one country, but can be solved when working together.
The network’s global vision: The elimination of the concept of waste as we know it.
John shared a story while he traveled to Brazil – He witnessed people wearing bathing suits without shoes to pick materials out of the dump in Rio. We want to help by proving boots or other items including gloves to improve the safety and health, John said. Many times, it is women and children picking through the waste in the landfill.
5 pillars of Waste (Focus of Action Network Efforts)
▪ Rethink the entire waste stream (producer innovation)
▪ Encourage less resource consumption (consumer literacy)
▪ Expand the recovery of post-recycled materials (technology innovation)
▪ Reduce risk for people and the environment in developing countries (women and informal economy)
▪ Reduce net waste tonnage landfilled per capita
Parting message, we can do more with the waste in the landfill by creating a new vision by eliminating the concept of waste as we know it today.
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