3R Case Study

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Concept of 3R’s
The concept of minimizing waste impacts in terms of quantity or ill-effects, by reducing quantity of wastes, reusing the waste products with simple treatments and recycling the wastes by using it as resources to produce same or modified products is usually referred to as “3R” (Shimizu, 2006). Purchasing and using resources with care can reduce the pace of consumption of resources and further connected energy and resources. Ultimately reducing wastes in multifold streams. When long lasting goods are reused time and again, it offsets harvesting of new similar or same products. This saves fresh resources exploitation and waste generation quantity. Some waste products can be consumed as resources for production of different goods or the same product, meaning recycling the same resource. This too saves fresh resources and offsets waste generation. All in all, the 3Rs individually or collectively saves fresh resources exploitation, add value to the already exploited resources and very importantly minimizes the waste quantity and its ill effects. Waste minimization efficiency is stated to be better achieved applying 3Rs in a hierarchical order; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (Shimizu, 2006). …show more content…

Then the 30th G8 Summit in June 2004 held at Sea Island, Georgia adopted the 3R as a new G8 initiative (UNEP, 2005). Under Japan’s initiative and support the 3R initiative has reached to the Asian developing countries. Several rounds of expert meetings and Ministerial level conferences had been held to promote 3R initiative in Asia and Pacific. Several expert papers also has been presented, compiled and published (IGES, 2006b). An Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) on 3Rs has also been launched in 2006 (Shizumi, 2006; IGES,

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