Advocates for corporate control over the US recycling sector through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) point to British Columbia as their model for the United States. Yet analysis...
According to a recent article in a Canadian publication called Prince Georges Matters, the Return-It Recycling Centre in British Columbia is being forced to end...
In July of 2022 a 30-year old garbage incinerator in Hartford, Connecticut will close. An estimated 700,000 tons of waste will be transferred to landfills...
As part of ILSR’s Baltimore Composting for Community Project, we are supporting about a dozen community compost sites in the city. This month we hosted...
The mission of iFixit is an ambitious one: To teach the world how to fix every single thing. In a new report, iFixit shows that...
Zero Waste Europe hosted the extraordinary webinar with experts and activists from leading Zero Waste cities in Europe. Tune in to learn how cities from...
Host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Neil Seldman and Captain Charles Moore, author of Plastic Ocean, to discuss Moore’s his vision for turning landfills...
Though it contains some harmful provisions, the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act is the most important piece of federal legislation impacting America’s waste and...
ILSR offers input on three recent documents that clarify the profound differences between contending approaches to the theory, practice and evaluation of the Extended Producer...
“Mine Landfills Now” is the most recent publication of Captain Charles Moore and the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, based in Long Beach, California....
Recent developments point to the increased headway being made by the right to repair movement across the country.… Read More
Reports on developments in Australia and Baltimore, Maryland, US, indicate the difficult work head in eliminating garbage incineration.… Read More
New fact sheet and article make clear that “chemical recycling” is not, actually, recycling, and is not the solution to our global plastic problem.… Read...
The Northern California Recycling Association’s draft comments to the California Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling focused on the merits of dual stream...
Bay County, Florida’s recent decision to shut down a local Waste-to-Energy facility reflects a general trend in the energy sector, but its decision to redirect...