These proposals typically claim to convert all or a large portion of existing garbage into oil and sometimes claim to produce so much oil that the world will henceforth have abundant liquid fuels.
Osnovna potreba po premiku na družbo, zasnovano po načelih Zero Waste izhaja iz ogromne izgube sredstev, ki je neločljivo povezana z slabo narejenih, kratkotrajnih artiklov in proizvodnih procesov.