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The Vision <br />Government Will: <br />• Foster company values for conservation of natural resources; GETTING THERE <br />The Vision <br />• Support and cooperate in programs that promote resource Citizens Will: • Pay for consumption by financially supporting safe management of <br />conservation and environmental stewardship to consumers; and resource and residual materials. <br />.Accurately label, promote, and sell recyclables and recycled content <br />products. Business Will: • Adopt the vision of resource conservation in business practices and <br />thereby minimize the need for government intervention; and <br />. Educate by good example; .Financially support safe management of resource and residual <br />materials. <br />.Help consumers communicate to manufacturers the need for prod- <br />ucts that are recyclable, durable, repairable, and have reduced <br />toxicity; Government Will: .Provide citizens the opportunity to recycle and dispose of waste; <br />• Provide curricula and training materials for kindergarten through .Develop local plans which provide citizens services that are safe, <br />college students; affordable and convenient; <br />• Institute research and development activities at colleges and .Assure that Oregon has sufficient, safe and convenient disposal <br />universities; ~ capacity; and <br />.Develop information and materials to foster resource conservation .Implement funding alternatives for secondary resource and residual <br />by businesses and citizens; and collection and disposal which will spread the cost of solid waste <br />management broadly throughout the system. <br />. Educate citizens on the need for integrated resource and solid waste i <br />_. ~ <br />management. <br />VISION VISION <br />YEAR 2005 <br />Secondary resource and residual waste management <br />are self-sustaining operations with limited need for <br />direct government intervention. Government will focus <br />on the environmental protection and human health <br />aspects of waste management. <br />YEAR 2005 <br />Public and private decisions about how products are <br />manufactured and used and how residual waste is dis- <br />posed are made in the best interests of public and environ- <br />mental health. <br />10 11 <br />