Reducing what we consume would create sustainable jobs and wealth, and re-using goods would send less garbage to landfill.

TEA advocates reduction-centred waste policies, such as:

• Extended Producer Responsibility laws which ensure that manufacturers and distributors - who design the packaging and products we consume and determine if they are durable, re-usable or recyclable - bear their fair share of the cost of dealing with a product through its full life-cycle.
• Our Return to Re-use campaign is working to bring back refillable glass bottles for beverage containers.
• Our Use-it, Re-use It Guide helps individuals re-use and recycle household goods. Find out where you can buy used items, repair broken items, or take unwanted items for others to re-use and help ease Toronto's garbage crisis. TEA and the Ontario Waste Management Exchange has partnered to provide TEA's successful Use-It ReUse It Guide 
• Composting, which returns organic matter to the soil rather than burying it in landfills as garbage.
• Opposition to garbage and sewage incineration.