'CUTTING WASTE WOULD BOOST ECONOMY' - MEP
GREEN EURO-MP CALLS FOR ZERO WASTE AT RECYCLING CONFERENCE

Event: Caroline Lucas MEP to address 'Recipes for Recycling' conference Place: Royal Court Hotel' Tamworth Road' Coventry
Time: Conference runs May 18th/19th. Dr Lucas speaks on May 18th at 3.30pm

ELIMINATING waste would bring economic and social as well as environmental benefits' Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas will tell a conference tomorrow (Wednesday' May 18th).

Dr Lucas called for the EU to adopt a 'zero waste' strategy and eliminate solid waste by making manufacturers responsible for ensuring their products are designed to be reused' repaired or recycled - rather than disposed of and replaced.

"Such an approach would change the way resources flow through society and would bring economic and social as well as environmental benefits' as is already being seen in India' New Zealand' Australia and the US 'where pioneering zero waste strategies have