Choose Zero Waste over incinerators

Metro Vancouver adopted Zero Waste as a challenge but the Solid Waste Management Plan and their staff are focussing on burning the waste as their first priority (see where staff time and funding have gone to date) with plans to build up to 6 incinerators with costs of up to $3 billion. Zero Waste works towards waste elimination through holding producers responsible for their products, composting organics, social marketing to change behaviours and creating incentives to eliminate waste. Incineration (any form of waste to energy using municipal waste) is not Zero Waste*. Incineration risks our environmental, human and financial health. Tell Metro we want real zero waste* not incineration (or waste to energy).
*The Zero Waste International Alliance definition: Zero Waste is a goal that is both pragmatic and visionary, to guide people to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are resources for others to use.  Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to reduce the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.  Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that may be a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.