Waste reduction

This is the highest in the priority whereby it seeks to reduce the amount of waste produced. If this is done, it will positively affect the other stages because there will be few wastes that will be produced. This will reduce the effect of waste and its processing on the environment and the health of human beings.Some simple reduction activities that individuals within a community can do are backyard composting

Waste reduction can be encouraged by:

1. Making policies that will discourage waste production e.g sanitary inspection, surcharging people on amount of waste produced.
2. Making policies that make discourage production companies to produce disposable materials and also products containing unnecessary packages.
3. Making policies that encourages company to produce useable and recyclable products.
4. Making take-back laws. This works more with electronic wastes. This should make manufacturers to take back products that are not in good condition, repair or use its part to repair others.