Zero Waste

Zero Waste: A Getting Started Guide

Our linear economy is not sustainable. Many companies realise that they need a strategy to handle waste, but lack clarity on the work needed to develop and achieve their goals. Anchored in research, our Zero Waste: A Getting Started Guide aims to support your company as it begins or revisits a zero operational waste strategy. It helps build a foundational understanding of the issue and provides clarity on the work ahead towards an embedded strategy for zero waste.

Zero Waste International Alliance

Established in the early 2000s, the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) promotes positive alternatives to dumping, landfills, and incineration, and raises awareness of the benefits of viewing waste as a resource that can benefit business. Operating at the international, national, and local level, the ZWIA provides definitions and standards for the application of zero waste goals and initiatives; facilitate research and information-sharing; build capacity to effectively implement zero waste; and connect change agents with leaders in the field to help achieve zero waste outcomes.

The Plastic Waste Makers Index

This groundbreaking report from the Minderoo Foundation reveals the perpetrators and enablers of the plastic waste crisis, and highlights both the trajectory of this issue and the impacts it will have on peoples and the environment. This report can help you to understand which companies are driving this crisis; which companies are making real efforts to create a circular plastics economy; and how virgin polymer production is expected to grow or decline in the future.

Transparent 2024 Annual ReSource: Plastic Progress Report

The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste: The Roadmap

This resource from Second Harvest explains how nearly 9 million metric tonnes of food is lost or wasted by the food industry in Canada each year. The report uses field-to-fork life cycle analysis to show how - and why - food loss and waste occur. This is a good starting point for building awareness around the magnitude of food waste, regardless of geographic context; for understanding the differences between avoidable and unavoidable waste; and for understanding the kinds of immediate and long-term solutions that should be pursued to reduce food loss and food waste.

A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities

Produced by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC), this guide can help you to develop and implement consistent site-specific tailings management systems, and especially at new facilities. Designed to be applicable by mining facilities anywhere in the world, this guide provides a broadly applicable tailings management framework and a detailed planning rubric.

Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management

The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management was developed by ICMM to prevent catastrophic failure, enhance the safety of mine tailings facilities around the globe, and achieve the goal of zero harm to people and the environment. The Standard applies to current and future tailings facilities, and is comprised of six topic areas, 15 principles, and 77 auditable requirements that can be supported by implementation protocols.