After 10 years of battling against a proposed garbage/plasma arc facility by the citizens in Ottawa, Ontario, the plant was approved. The political battle was...
Public municipal solid waste services are fundamental to the quality of life in our communities. How we collect and dispose of our garbage and recycling...
Do citizens and businesses have a right to repair their computers and related products? ILSR asked Sophia MacDonald to describe the efforts of Digital Right...
Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) and the Zero Waste Houston coalition have been organizing for two years against a misguided proposal to replace an...
There are two highly successful non-profit, community based e scrap enterprises operating in Oregon. They have stellar records of efficiency and integrity. They are rivers...
There is no one best way for communities to recycle. San Francisco has a highly successful program under an exclusive franchise system. Across the Bay,...
The Reuse People of America (TRP) has concluded its 7th annual and 2nd National Reuse Contest. Over 100 entries were received in two categories; Art...
The Waste to Wealth = Green Jobs event (free to attend) is being held to present the potential for developing small minority-owned companies in the...
In 2009 Atlanta declared four neighborhoods within the city as zero waste zones. The effort’s goals include helping local businesses find ways to reduce trash,...
Dear Neighbors, Carroll County citizens now join tens of thousands of their peers across the nation who have stood up to the silly and dangerous...
Curtis Bay is an industrial area located at the southern tip of Baltimore, MD. Residents have been subject to heavy doses of industrial pollution for...
The policy of discouraging or even prohibiting repair and reuse is definitely not a win for the environment, but it is also a serious consumer...
VICTORY! Over the last 6 years, the Takoma Park Young Activist Club has been campaigning to get toxic styrofoam lunch trays out of Piney Branch...
Mal Williams, director of the Zero Waste International Trust, alerts us to some good news from the UK by forwarding the recent government report on...
Neil Seldman, ILSR Waste to Wealth Program, Washington, DC continues to follow the one bin proposal in Houston, Texas. In his January 7th Letter to the Editor,...