Oh, now I get your position. Yes, not making waste is good one too, but that won't get rid of the waste we already made. Where do we put that? Recycle... By the way, maybe I don't know something, but as far as I know, multiple industrial processes are bound to make waste if their work, otherwise their prices just go skyrocketting (no pun intended) or they become impossible. One example - nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. Metallurgy is quite messy as well. What should we do with that? I say recycle, because there are many useful resources left in that junk, which can be used.

By the way, how do you imagine "not making waste"? I buy my six cans of Coke, I drink the Coke and I put those cans exactly where? Oh dear, did I think "recycle it"... Sarcasm excluded, what do you think about recycling various packaging items? Stop packaging stuff? Recycling it? What about redundant documents and other paper rubbish? What about scratched CDs? What about used light bulbs? What about... (Yes, I can continue indefinitely, I just don't believe that you can actually avoid making rubbish. Minimizing it would be welcome, but making none is ridiculous thought.)