I suppose this can also go under metatopics

In order to avoid the edit wars, I'll leave this here. But I moved it from materials because some aspects of the 4Rs extend beyond materials. I don't consider energy a "material", and it's quite a stretch for me to consider "water" or even "air" as a material, and yet "reduce" and "reuse" of water make sense, and "rethink" of all of these make sense.

As a compromise, I'll also put it under the Meta concepts category. --CurtB 21:24, 18 December 2006 (PST)

Hi Curt, I think traditionally the 4R's, as a package, have been applied more to material waste management, especially because of the "Recycling" component as opposed to water conservation, water reuse and energy conservation. But multiple categorization is definitely in our general plan. --Lonny 22:50, 18 December 2006 (PST)

Alternative name?

I tried Googling the 4Rs (I don't remember hearing the term), and there doesn't seem to be any kind of agreed definition. Could be "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew," or the last is sometimes "Rot", and its used in quite different ways as well.

Is there a more widely known term we can use instead? Or just stick to each component as its own category, and have 4Rs as a topic page? --Chriswaterguy 11:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

does this need to be a cat?

Seems a bit extreme to be a category in its own right. Possibly little to suggest it should even be a page. Joeturner 03:41, 16 April 2013 (PDT)

I like having a mainspace page on the topic, as for any term which is used in sustainability education - but categories should be well known or self-explanatory terms, IMO. How about we merge or rename? --Chriswaterguy 05:14, 17 April 2013 (PDT)
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