WHISTLER2020

Sustainability Objective Two

To reduce, and eventually eliminate Whistler's contribution to ongoing build-up of substances produced by society.

This is not to say we can’t or shouldn’t ever use synthetic materials produced by society. Scientists agree that ongoing increases of these substances in natural systems will eventually reach critical thresholds – currently unknown – at which point irreversible impacts on human health and the environment will occur. Given this fact, the second Sustainability Objective suggests that we can’t continue to use chemicals and substances that do not break down naturally, at rate that causes them to accumulate in natural systems.

Generally this means:

  • systematically substituting certain persistent and unnatural compounds with ones that are abundant or break down more easily in nature, and
  • using substances produced by society more efficiently.

Examples

Favouring

Avoiding

  • Material that are natural and biodegradable (e.g. glass, wood, cotton, water-based etc.)
  • Petroleum-based, Persistent, synthetic materials (especially toxic & hazardous materials)
  • Materials that are managed in tight technical cycles (e.g. reused, recycled)
  • Materials that are likely to be dispersed into nature
  • Re-Useable, recyclable
  • Disposable, non-recyclable
  • Recycled materials
  • Virgin resources
  • Organically grown, untreated
  • Chemically grown, treated

 

 

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