Old site category
In a new article published in Waste360, Neil Seldman notes that, when it comes to recycling and waste management, bigger isn’t better. To make a comeback, we need to “relocalize the recycling system in the U.S.”… Read More
The Break Free from Plastic Bill seeks to address the problems of air, water and soil pollution from plastic waste. But to do this, it includes Extended Producer Responsibility provisions that would force communities to cede control over their local recycling industries to the same large corporations that are responsible for designing and promoting the waste-generating products and packages.
The Institute for Local Self- Reliance and Zero Waste USA have just sent a letter to ask President Biden and Vice President Harris to establish policies and programs for waste reduction, reuse, recycling and composting that will stem climate disruption, address racial justice, and create thousands of jobs throughout the country. … Read More
The role of the ReUse Corridor has been to reverse the traditional linear investment in solid waste management that drains the potential resources of the Appalachian Region. Centered on the eight counties surrounding Athens (Hopkins County) in southern Ohio, including communities in Kentucky and West Virginia, the strength of the ReUse Corridor concept and practice is to restore access to and control over the resources that are now filling up local landfills and incinerators at great cost.
The Zero Waste program is based on sharing facilities, transportation and market information for recyclable and compostable materials and repaired products.… Read More
Bruce Holstein, longtime anti incineration and pro Zero Waste advocate from Carroll County, MD recently authored a guest commentary that appeared in the Carroll County Times. In it, he offered suggestions to county officials about the benefits of zero waste.… Read More
John Moore, based in Oakland, CA., is a board certified litigator who has practiced law for forty years and has been very active in solid waste and recycling law. In this article, Moore discusses and critiques Extended Producer Responsibility laws in California.… Read More
Advocacy group United Kingdom Without Incineration (UKWIN) has launched a campaign to impose ‘an immediate and full moratorium on new waste incineration capacity throughout the country, where recent reports show that many recyclables are being incinerated.… Read More
Neil Seldman, ILSR Co-Founder and director of the group’s Waste to Wealth Initiative, wrote a recent opinion piece for Resource Recycling, Inc. In it, he traces Big Waste’s impact on recycling, and outlines strategies for reviving our nation’s approach to recycling.… Read More
As one of the founding members of the Zero Waste International Alliance, ILSR strongly supports ZWIA’s definition of Zero Waste. As ZWIA states, “One of the primary goals of organizing the Zero Waste International Alliance in 2002 was to establish standards to guide the development of Zero Waste in the world. The Planning Group of the … Read More
