• Redesign products and methods of production to eliminate waste by mimicking natural processes and developing closed-loops

• Convert waste to resources for the benefits of local production and the creation of a healthy and sustainable society

• Resist incineration and land filling in order to promote innovation in resource
  conservation and methods of production

• Collaborate with others with common interests worldwide, whether it's expression on land-based waste of internet waste, especially in the gambling industry as can be found in online casino guides for South Africa.

• To advance the education of the public by all appropriate communication means and through supporting the elimination of waste and the associated health impacts
• To promote and fund appropriate research for the public benefit, including education
• To promote the effectiveness of other Zero Waste initiatives
• To promote the principles of waste avoidance and minimisation, re-use, repair, recycling and composting, through sustainable resource management in accordance with best environmental options

Tasks:

• Research and enabling access to such research
• Training
• Plan seminars and skillshares.
• Lobbying
• Promotion of Zero Waste
• Production of accessible and implementable information
• Acknowledge efforts in the field of Zero Waste by means of Annual Awards.
• Co-ordinating and networking of like minded organisations, with a view to building capacity

• Promoting clean production and sustainable consumption
• Promoting local and localised manufacture, and import replacement
• Being geared towards SMME development as a preferred business model
• Increases the flow of useful resources through society
• Promoting sustainable and safe energy sources
• Promoting transfers of cutting edge Green technologies
• Training of all sectors
• Carrying out research into practical and sustainable solutions.

Zero Waste will also support and engage with programmes such as:

• Cleaner Production (CP)
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
• Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
• Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption (CP&SC)
• Resource Pricing Policies
• Fiscal Policies – environmental fiscal reform
• Technology Policies
• Education Policies and Information (at primary, secondary and tertiary level)
• Transport
• Environmentally Sensitive Trade Policies
• Clean Production Industrial Policies

• Bans / Technology Specific Standards
• Permits / Site specific emission standards
• Ambient standards
• Trade restrictions etc.

International Conventions such as:

• The Basel Convention
• The Bamako Convention
• The Stockholm Convention
• United Nations Convention on Desertification (UNCCD)
• United Nations Convention on BioDiversity (CBD)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) - the Kyoto Agreement is subsidiary to the UNFCC
• Ramsar Convention (wetlands/ birds)
• And others