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Adapting To The Waste-Related Impacts of Climate Change: Mother Earth

Climate change is causing more severe natural disasters that generate larger amounts and varieties of waste over wider areas. This document identifies strategies for communities to better prepare for and respond to disaster-related waste, such as expediting waste removal, evaluating recycling programs to handle increased volumes, and finding opportunities to reduce waste sources and hazards before disasters occur.

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Adapting To The Waste-Related Impacts of Climate Change: Mother Earth

Climate change is causing more severe natural disasters that generate larger amounts and varieties of waste over wider areas. This document identifies strategies for communities to better prepare for and respond to disaster-related waste, such as expediting waste removal, evaluating recycling programs to handle increased volumes, and finding opportunities to reduce waste sources and hazards before disasters occur.

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Adapting to the Waste-related Impacts of Climate Change W

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Identify strategies to
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disaster-related waste

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Evaluate the community’s
reuse and recycling program

MOTHER EARTH to ensure it can be scaled up


to handle disaster-related
wastes

Waste-related Consequences of More Severe


Natural Disasters
Find opportunities for source
 Larger quantities of waste resulting from the reduction and hazard
disaster. mitigation before a disaster
 Wider variety of generated wastes at one time, occurs
including atypical wastes in greater quantities.
 Wider area of impact, possibly affecting more

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