As one of the founding members of the Zero Waste International Alliance, ILSR strongly supports ZWIA’s definition of Zero Waste.
As ZWIA states, “One of the primary goals of organizing the Zero Waste International Alliance in 2002 was to establish standards to guide the development of Zero Waste in the world. The Planning Group of the Zero Waste International Alliance adopted the first peer-reviewed internationally accepted definition of Zero Waste on November 29, 2004. An updated definition of Zero Waste was adopted by the ZWIA board December 2018. This restructuring of definition aligns the definition to the guiding principles of the Zero Waste Hierarchy to create a globally accessible statement of meaning.”
The updated definition of Zero Waste is:
