Sustainable consumption and production
breaking the link between economic growth and environmental degradation and resource use through promoting and enabling more sustainable patterns of consumption and production;
Outcomes we aim to achieve:
- Programmes in place to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation and unsustainable resource use
- Protection of human health and the environment by minimising amounts of waste produced and getting as much value as possible out of what is left by re-use, recycling or composting and the recovery of energy
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