The best way to defeat proposed incinerators has proven itself once again: community organizing. The Maryland State Department of the Environment pulled the permit on...
The Reuse People of America (TRP), the national non-profit network of building deconstruction enterprises that operate as joint ventures with both for profit and nonprofit...
Scarborough, is a district within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a population of 625,000 people. Recently, one thousand residents of Mayfair on the...
Introduction In the past several months, journalists in major publications such as Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mother...
No big surprise here! A survey of mills indicates that quality of one-bin materials are inferior. In North America, a survey of mills’ recovered paper...
We have been reporting on these developments in these cities for the past few months. Within hours of each other the two proposed facilities were...
The national average recycling rate has been holding at just under 35 percent for the past five years, after rapid growth in the 1990s and...
The decline in oil prices and its consequences for recycling as reported recently by The New York Times is not being seen everywhere. Programs and...
Since Second Chance, the non-profit building deconstruction and retail outlet, started with 6 workers it has grown to over 150 employees. The vast majority of...
Residents and environmentalists said Wednesday they plan to sue a power plant company that is developing a facility in the Fairfield area of Baltimore. The...
The development of ‘Dirty MRFs’ (processing mixed garbage to recover recycable materials) has been stymied by citizen dissent and poor operating performance. Most recently, the...
The Reuse People, the non-profit national network of deconstruction enterprises, has completed the results of the Third National Reuse Contest featuring winners and runner ups...
I think the writers who periodically “trash” recycling as ‘broken’, ‘wasteful’, ‘outweigh the benefits’ are secretly in love with recycling. They write their pieces in...
Origins In the last 20 years, No Waste, a simple term expressing the aspirations of recycling activists, became Zero Waste and a social movement bearing...
ILSR is working closely with the newly appointed Waste Diversion staff of the DC Department of Public Works (DPW). The Waste Diversion staff was hired...