Environmental crises surround us: global warming, hazardous waste, resource depletion, air pollution and many more.
"When a municipality says you can't drill here, you have the ultimate waste of the resource and destruction of the correlative rights of the landowners, " West said.
The Pacific voyage aboard the 60-foot catamaran is intended to highlight the growing amount of plastic waste in the oceans and to spur public debate on finding ways to turn the waste into a resource.
The oil and gas law, West said, is intended to ensure extraction of the maximum amount of oil and gas from a large area, protect the mineral rights of multiple landowners, and prevent waste of the resource.
The minister said all waste was a valuable resource from the planet which must be reused.
Yet any waste of a valuable resource is offensive at a visceral level.
That said, Lutz is a valuable resource and it would be a shame to waste his expertise and wisdom.
GM, for example, had to hire resource management employees in each facility to track and report waste generation for their site.
But Robert Bullard, who heads the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, sees the shipment of waste from one county to a poorer, blacker one as part of a longstanding pattern that sees minority communities disproportionately burdened with hazards.
The facility is part of a 27-year waste management agreement between the city and county councils and private firm Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS).
After well over 1, 000 days since the initial idea we will be unveiling a finished vessel that showcases smarter designs that rethinks how we look at the waste that's polluting our seas and utilize it as a resource and as a solution.
Waste also presents an opportunity in a grander sense: as a potential resource.
At GM, however, waste is viewed not as something to be thrown away, but as a resource out of place.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
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