Zero Waste School Project Handout: Chester Upland School District (CUSD)

Date: 1 Sep 2015 | posted in: waste - recycling, waste - zero waste, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Stetser Elementary and Main Street Elementary Green Team students took the lead in starting a successful recycling collection pilot project at their respective schools during Spring 2015. This is the first phase of the Chester Zero Waste School Project, a partnership of the City of Chester, Chester Upland School District, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance … Read More

Orillia, Ontario, goes to every-other-week garbage pickup

Date: 21 Aug 2015 | posted in: waste - zero waste, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 focuses its PR on telling citizens what they need to know, not what they want to hear. The tone is excitement, shared responsibility, and getting in the habit of responsible behavior.  … Read More

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) & Incineration

Date: 11 Aug 2015 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 CPP allows for only the biogenic portion of the waste burned in a municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerator to be counted as renewable. Only incinerators with electricity capacity built after 2012 … Read More

Environmental Justice Victory in DC, as Mayor Pulls Incinerator Contract

Date: 6 Aug 2015 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 sending its garbage to Fairfax County for incineration. Mike Ewall of Energy Justice Network, coordinator of this latter effort, describes the recent victory as the city has tabled a proposal to … Read More

Neil Seldman: Letter in Response to Washington Post Recycling Article

Date: 4 Jul 2015 | posted in: Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 single-stream recycling bins. But clarifications are needed. Avoided costs: Cities do not make money from recycling. They reduce their overall costs of solid waste management because recycling costs less than managing … Read More

Greys Paper Will Build Small Scale Recycled Paper Plants in U.S.

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 recommended this company to ILSR’s long time working partners the MId America Regional Council of Governments (MARC), Kansas City and the Department of Resource Recovery, Austin, TX. Both agencies followed through … Read More

Expert thwarts progress of pro-incineration bill in Philippines

Date: 11 Jun 2015 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 the Ecowaste Coalition explains the role of Dr. Jorge Emmanuel in presenting to the Philippines’ Congress. An environmental scientist told pro-incineration representatives during a committee meeting that burning wastes is bad, … Read More

Update on “Denmark Without Waste”

Date: 26 May 2015 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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 on the ‘wrong path’. Also see, ILSR’s 2014 update, A Zero Waste Paradigm for Denmark A BURNING ISSUE By Edward Perchard | 27 April 2015 To most, Denmark brings to mind … Read More

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