DEFINITION: The Waste Framework Directive made compliance with the waste hierarchy a mandatory requirement. The most important priority in the hierarchy is preventing waste. Businesses that import or ...

In updating its guidance, the EPA published a food waste hierarchy — which shows the best way to reduce food waste is to prevent it. This includes things like adding accurate date-labels to ...

The University manages waste in accordance with the waste hierarchy, which ranks waste management options according to what is best for the environment. In practice, we try to prevent generating waste ...