5.2 Subsystem in relation to other sub-systems within sustainable Texel

As can be seen in the pathways there are a lot of stakeholders and events that are related to changing the waste treatment system. The municipality should communicate their vision and make way for entrepreneurs to be able to start new sustainable waste treatment businesses (and others). The existing companies should have a common understanding about sustainability and have to implement it in their whole process in order to be able to have a closed loop system. The teaching of the tourists should be done by the tourist industry and could be combined with the accommodating of the tourists. There is an opportunity in the products coming towards the island; there are trucks with food and products coming to the island while there are empty trucks going back, while the same happens with the waste but then the other way around. These two transportation streams could be combined, making the transport more efficient. One of the closest related topics is the organic waste management. A vision should be created about the percentage of organic waste in comparison with inorganic waste and what kind of inorganic waste could be replace by organic waste and what the consequences of that will be. These are all topics that are related to the inorganic waste management and should be taken care of in order to make the transition complete and successful. At least there is one common challenge: getting the inhabitants of Texel along and convincing them of the common goal we should, as Soren Hermansen said about Samo, find the blacksmith and slowly make it happen keeping in mind the MAYA principe (most advanced yet acceptable).