Melanie Scruggs of the Texas Campaign for the Environment provides this update on developments in Houston. “The new Houston mayor will NOT pursue the dirty...
We pass along media coverage of the dramatic community protests at the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore, MD, on December 15, 2015. Citizens...
For the past three years, residents of Syracuse and Onondaga County, NY, have sent only 315,000 tons of garbage to the County’s garbage incineration plant....
Zero Waste (90% or more diversion from incineration and landfill) is a concept and a practical approach to managing the valuable materials in waste streams...
In its short four years of operation, the non-profit Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta has diverted 500 tons of reusable building materials from area landfills....
Citizens of Curtis Bay in south Baltimore are fending off a 4,000 ton per day garbage incinerator proposed for their community of 15,000 residents already...
Paul Connett is a zero waste super star. A trained chemist, Paul threw himself into the anti garbage incineration movement while teaching as a chemistry...
On the heels of a recent Wall Street Journal story, now BusinessWeek magazine has published a story on the “Right to Repair” issue. The story...
People can fight back against planned obsolescence by fixing the tech we already own, but the consumer electronics industry isn’t making it easy. There’s a...
Stetser Elementary and Main Street Elementary Green Team students took the lead in starting a successful recycling collection pilot project at their respective schools during...
Mary Lou Van Deventer, Urban Ore, Berkeley, CA reports: The city of Orillia, Ontario, is making financially sensible Zero Waste resource system choices, and it...
The Global Anti Incineration Alliance (GAIA) has summarized the impact that President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will have on incineration. In a nutshell: The...
Recycling advocates had stopped any ideas of building a garbage incinerator in the District of Columbia. Now, we are trying to stop the city from...
Neil Seldman – Letter to Editor Dear Editor, The Washington Post’s feature “American recycling is stalling” (June 20), correctly points to problems caused by large...
The Greys Paper Company, Edmonton, Canada will build the first two small-scale high grade recycled paper mills in the US in Texas and Kansas. ILSR...