Montgomery County’s garbage incinerator in Dickerson, Maryland, long-heralded as a model of success in the industry by incineration proponents, has not looked so successful in...
Louise Mann, Waste Reduction Resources, has been a recycling educator and activist for over thirty years. She is now focused on the effort to prevent...
According to a new report from the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, if just one percent of all households in South...
Community Purchasing Alliance (CPA) is a Washington, D.C.-based purchasing cooperative that helps schools, churches, and senior facilities cooperatively buy basic services such as electricity, janitorial,...
The dialogue on the topic of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Paper, Packaging and Products did not take a Thanksgiving holiday. Below you will find...
Urban Ore, the material recovery enterprise in Berkeley, CA, and ILSR have been working partners for over 30 years. In recent years our collaboration has...
The CEO of Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) commented to CNBC that, based on the facts, glass and organics should not be collected because they lack economic...
In my career of five decades of working in the recycling field for ILSR there is only one person I consider a true “Johnny Appleseed...
Sweden will try to assist companies that aim to repair products by exempting those services from the Value Added Tax (VAT). If legislation submitted recently...
The right to repair computers and related machines is one answer to the growth of E-Scrap in the U.S. waste stream. ILSR’s working partner, Gay...
Grassroots recycling companies were a critical link in the United States as the transition from the drop off recycling centers that sprung up after Earth...
In a recent article from Lloyd Alter in Treehugger.com, he notes that Sweden may be sending amount of waste to their landfills, but the fact...
Prince George’s County has officially declined to move forward with garbage incineration as part of its future solid waste and recycling management system. On 9...
All incinerators need landfills despite the myth of “zero waste to landfill” put forward by garbage incineration proponents. Citizens in Saugus, MA, have been trying...
If your cell phone or computer has broken down recently, you may have noticed how hard it is to get repaired. Manufacturer repair services (think...