The World Assembly,

Recognizing that improved manufacturing processes often lead to an increased waste production due to cheaper products indirectly promoting a use and throwaway culture;

Understanding that technological limitations and economical concerns can lead to reservations regarding waste reduction programs;

Troubled, however, that many waste products contain materials that require significant amounts of time to decompose or are of toxic nature;

Concerned that unregulated accumulation of refuse inevitably leads to negative environmental effects due to contamination of water, air and soil and thus poses a danger for sapient species, animals and ecosystems;

Further concerned that uncontrolled increases of waste squanders valuable, rare and energy-intensive resources;

Thus believing that a reduction of waste would benefit all nations and their inhabitants;

Hereby, 

• 1. Defines for the purpose of this resolution: 
  • a) "Recyclable waste material" as a waste material, item or object that can be reprocessed into materials fit for manufacturing;
    
  • b) "Recycling" as a process in which a recyclable waste material is converted into a state that is reusable for production;
    
  • c) "Salvageable object" as a complex waste product that can, due to disassembly, yield recyclable materials;
    
  • d) "Salvaging" as a process in which a salvageable object is disassambled into recyclable waste materials;
    
• 2. Mandates: 
  • a) the introduction of recycling and salvaging as a means of waste reduction in all member nations in accordance to their technological and economical capabilities, unless such is already introduced and active;
    
  • b) the implementation of an easily accessible system for the collection of recyclable materials and salvageable objects in said nations, unless such is already in place;
    
• 3. Requires its member nations to encourage participation in recycling and salvaging, and the usage of through recycling recovered materials with the means of legislation, incentives or penalization;
  
• 4. Clarifies that this resolution does neither prevent nor discrourage the implementation of other waste reduction methods before or after recycling takes place.
  
• 5. Encourages its member nations to support the research of new recycling and waste reduction techniques to further reduce waste production.