Zero Waste Wiki
Zero Waste Wiki is a collective online encyclopaedia based on the wiki principle. The aim of the project is to provide freely reusable, objective, verifiable and up-to-date content to enable as many people as possible to spread the zero waste, zero waste approach. Knowledge is only valuable if it is shared. The project began with the aim of producing an educational kit for use by those involved in education and extra-curricular activities who want to raise awareness among their young audiences, or even develop a genuine strategy for reducing waste and wastage within their establishments. The awareness-raising initiatives are aimed at primary and secondary school children, as well as secondary school pupils and students. The project has evolved to include Do It Yourself workshops and composting fact sheets. Every month, the volunteers correct, annotate and add to the wiki.
Several values have guided this approach.
Accessibility : This wiki is intended for everyone, whether a beginner⋅es or an expert⋅es, a teacher⋅es or a student⋅s, a member of an association or a citizen⋅es.
Horizontality : The editors of the pages are volunteers from local Zero Waste groups. They coordinate their efforts within a collaborative, leaderless community. The authors are the local Zero Waste member groups.
Peer review : since the content is freely accessible and the community is very active, the texts are constantly being checked and improved. It’s a bit like being alive, rather than closed and frozen.
Reliability : the texts rely on an author or local groups who manage their editing. Its pages outlive their original authors, since they are constantly updated by active communities. Peer review ensures that texts are reread regularly and appropriately.
Open collaboration : Zero Waste groups provide you with help, resources and solutions that go beyond the interests of any one group or company.
