{"id":2213,"date":"2005-04-05T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2005-04-05T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:54:00","slug":"berkley-councils-leads-the-way-with-zero-waste-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Berkley Councils leads the way with ZERO waste policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If it can&#8217;t be reused, rebuilt, refurbished, reconfigured, recycled, or composted, then it needs to be redesigned-or removed from production all together.&#8221; said Dan Knapp, founder and owner of Urban Ore, Berkeley&#8217;s premier reuse retailer.<\/p>\n<p>On March 22 Berkeley City Council made environmental history approving  the resolution which officially adopts a 75% waste reduction goal for 2010, and establishes a Zero Waste Goal for 2020. The resolution also suggests that Solid Waste Management Commission change its name to the Zero Waste commission.<\/p>\n<p>To read the minutes of the meeting follow the link below or click on the other links to read the local news.<\/p>\n<p>IFTSP applauds that age-old sustainability invention: THE RESTRICTION. Nature imposes restrictions and our way of living should respect them.  No landfill. Fantastic!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/citycouncil\/2005citycouncil\/packet\/032205\/03-22a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"getting on\">http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/citycouncil\/2005citycouncil\/packet\/032205\/03-22a.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If it can&#8217;t be reused, rebuilt, refurbished, reconfigured, recycled, or composted, then it needs to be redesigned-or removed from production all together.&#8221; said Dan Knapp, founder and owner of Urban Ore, Berkeley&#8217;s premier reuse retailer. On March 22 Berkeley City Council made environmental history approving the resolution which officially adopts a 75% waste reduction goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}