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...
A widespread overdependence on centralized, far-away and large-scale composting facilities persists, making it harder to return finished compost and the many benefits it provides back...
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 nature of US discussions on EPR in general and for packaging have changed significantly in the past year. The California Product Stewardship determined to...
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...
The ILSR Composting for Community Project is working with WasteCap Nebraska’s Zero Waste Programs to develop a Nebraska-focused advanced community-level composter training based on the...
ILSR co-director, Brenda Platt, gave a presentation at the Maryland Recycling Network’s 2015 Annual Conference. Her talk, State of Composting in the US: What, Why,...
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...
The Philippines is the only country that has banned garbage incineration. Constant vigilance is required to keep it that way. The following press release from...
Shlomo Dowen of GAIA-Europe provided this article from Edward Perchard on Denmark’s transition away from its network of 26 garbage incinerators that lead the country...
From Antonia Bruno from no-burn.org: Sweden is frequently touted as a model for the U.S. to follow, with its low landfilling rates, high “recycling” rates,...
The Waste to Wealth Initiative of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance is looking to fill a full time, associate-level position. The job involves developing recycling,...