Platform - Green Party US
Section III. Ecological Sustainability
A. Climate Change
Declare a Climate Emergency
The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:
Ecological Manufacturing
Build a public manufacturing system that can rebuild manufacturing in the U.S. on the basis of clean energy and zero waste.
The public manufacturing system will prioritize developing publicly-owned companies for clean energy and zero waste in key industries that must be transformed to reach 100% clean energy, such as zero-carbon cement manufacturing and replacing coke ovens with electric arc furnaces and green-hydrogen blast furnaces for steel production.
The machine tool industry, which builds factory equipment, must be rebuilt in order to build clean-energy, zero-waste manufacturing equipment for all sectors.
Policy should require that manufacturing products are returned to their manufacturer when used up to be reused and recycled into the next generation of products.
This zero-waste approach includes a rapid phase-out of petrochemical plastics and their replacement by biodegradable and inert packaging and product parts, including paper and glass.
The public manufacturing system should have a training program that enables the workers in these publicly-owned companies if they so choose to lease the factories from the public energy system and manage them as worker cooperatives.