Zero Waste Symposium – Comments By Neil Seldman

Date: 24 Feb 2014 | posted in: waste - recycling, waste - zero waste, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Comments (edited version) by Neil Seldman at the Zero Waste Symposium – held February 4, 2014 Sponsored by Zero Waste San Diego and the California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) February 4, 2014 Thank you very much, Rick. It’s always a pleasure to come back to California – certainly San Diego. Many of you know that I … Read More

Free 3-Part Deconstruction Webinar Series

Date: 29 Jan 2014 | posted in: waste - deconstruction, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This three part webinar series is brought to you by WasteCap Resource Solutions and is sponsored as well as presented by Ted Reiff, President of The ReUse People of America (TRP). Check out TRP’s website, www.thereusepeople.org, for more information. Ted has been in the deconstruction industry for many years. He will be sharing his vast knowledge … Read More

ILSR is Founding Member of Chesapeake Sustainable Business Council

ILSR is happy and proud to report that we are founding members of the newly launched Chesapeake Sustainable Business Council (CSBC).  The CSBC is a business-led educational and advocacy organization whose mission is to promote sustainable business viability, awareness, and impact within the Chesapeake region (MD, DC and VA). Over the next year CSBC will be … Read More

A Zero Waste Paradigm for Denmark

Date: 29 Jan 2014 | posted in: Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Transitioning from incineration to recycling and composting in Denmark — A detailed article on this important policy  turn around is helpful in the debates on garbage incineration in the US, where incineration proponents point to the “success” of this technology in Northern Europe. Click here to read the full article on the Zero Waste Europe web … Read More

New Help for Cities Auditing Private Trash and Recycling Contractors

ILSR and Sustainable Environmental Management Company (SEMCO) have joined to make state-of-the-art analytical tools available to city and county agencies overseeing solid waste and recycling programs. ILSR president Neil Seldman, and SEMCO president Jon Michael Huls will direct this new outreach effort. Seldman and Huls have been working partners for over 30 years in the field of resource management.… Read More

Earning Rewards For Recycling

Neil Seldman authored an article published in the October 2013 issue of BioCycle. One of the remarkable stories about recycling in the U.S. is the intensive and creative approaches to introduce it even though, at first, recycling was an add-on cost to solid waste management. This occurred during the 1970s and 1980s when small businesses and … Read More

Review: The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community At a Time

Date: 30 Oct 2013 | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A Review of The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community At a Time (By Paul Connett, published by Chelsea Green Publishing) Review by Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC Neil Seldman is President and co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). He is a specialist in recycling and the history of … Read More

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