Recycling and composting refers to supporting and expanding systems to keep materials in their original product loop and to protect the full usefulness of the materials.

• Support and expand systems to keep materials in their original product loop and to protect the full usefulness of the materials
• Maintain diversion systems that allow for the highest and best use of materials, including organics
• Recycle and use materials for as high a purpose as possible
• Develop resilient local markets and uses for collected materials wherever possible
• Provide incentives to create clean flows of compost and recycling feedstock
• Support and expand composting as close to the generator as possible (prioritizing home or on site or local composting wherever possible)
• Whenever home/decentralized composting is not possible, consider industrial composting, or if local conditions require/allow, anaerobic digestion

How do we ensure materials are put back in the materials cycle?