There are two primary reasons why Baltimore should invest in more recycling. Establishing high recycling levels will position the city’s residents and businesses for the...
New report from ILSR allies at the Global Anti Incineration Alliance reveals the environmental and economic risks of waste gasification and pyrolysis. Based on the...
The new year has brought us a number of news stories about new and old incinerators. The European Commission wants to defund garbage incineration, which...
There was some welcome news about garbage incineration coming out of Europe recently. The European Commission published a communication on the role of waste-to-energy in...
Montgomery County’s garbage incinerator in Dickerson, Maryland, long-heralded as a model of success in the industry by incineration proponents, has not looked so successful in...
Between mid-August and early December the Institute for Local Self-Reliance hosted two International Research and Exchange (IREX) fellows. To celebrate our fellows’ work with us,...
Now that 2016 is firmly in the rearview mirror, we are looking back at some of the great work that we did in our Waste...
EPA special interest group proposal flies in the face of science, as well as White House mandates for reduced greenhouse gas emissions.… Read More
In a recent article from Lloyd Alter in Treehugger.com, he notes that Sweden may be sending amount of waste to their landfills, but the fact...
Prince George’s County has officially declined to move forward with garbage incineration as part of its future solid waste and recycling management system. On 9...
All incinerators need landfills despite the myth of “zero waste to landfill” put forward by garbage incineration proponents. Citizens in Saugus, MA, have been trying...
A few years ago it looked like Maryland would start to resemble states like Connecticut and Massachusetts that invested heavily in garbage incineration. Baltimore has...
Shlomo Dowen of United Kingdom Without Incineration Network has been following developments in China, where despite the difficulty of communities communicating with each other, citizens...
On March 17 the permit for the 4,000 ton per day garbage incinerator planned for the Curtis Bay-Brooklyn Park-Hawkins Point area of south Baltimore, MD,...
For the past 40 years organized citizens and small businesses have successfully defeated proposed incinerators in over 400 cities and counties in the US. Each...