Description

One of the current sustainable economic models, in which products and materials are designed in such a way that they can be reused, remanufactured[,] recycled or recovered and thus maintained in the economy for as long as possible, along with the resources of which they are made, and the generation of waste, especially hazardous waste, is avoided or minimized, and greenhouse gas emissions are prevented or reduced, can contribute significantly to sustainable consumption and production. Source: United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 4/1, “Innovative pathways to achieve sustainable consumption and production”, fourteenth preambular paragraph.* * This term is included in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the international negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, under the category 'Terms not used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that may be related to those used in the resolution and that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.

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