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A food producer sets a policy to cut packaging waste by redesigning products, reusing materials and recycling what remains, rather than simply paying to dispose of waste. Which sustainability strategy does this best illustrate?
This illustrates a waste minimisation approach. The company is proactively reducing waste at source through redesign, reuse and recycling, rather than merely complying with law or paying for disposal after waste has been created.
- AWaste minimisation approachCorrect
- BGreenwashing
- CCompliance-only strategy
- DTransfer pricing
Explanation
Reducing, reusing and recycling to cut waste at source is waste minimisation, a proactive environmental strategy. Greenwashing is misleading environmental claims. A compliance-only strategy merely meets legal minimums, and transfer pricing concerns intra-group pricing.
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