The California Plastic Waste Reduction Regulations Initiative has the potential to send ripples through the world’s fifth largest economy as the state aims to lead on waste reduction. … Read More
Where there is civilization, there is salvage! US history is a case in point. These remarks were prepared by Neil Seldman for a Warren County webinar on reuse and economic growth. … Read More
Information technology asset disposition professionals discuss the growing right-to-repair movement and its implications for the electronics refurbishing and recycling market… Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it recognizes the Institute for Local Self-Reliance as an awardee in the regional grant category for building resilient and healthy communities, advancing local composting, and enhancing soils for local food production. … Read More
Diane Wittner’s Comments Sent to Michael Beichler, Solid Waste Management Bureau Chief, Baltimore County, MD, December 21, 2021. … Read More
Carlos Sanchez, a Baltimore high-school student and youth organizer for Free Your Voice and Fair Development Land Trust, responded to the announcement of a new Zero Waste Commission for the City with a thought-provoking op/ed in Baltimore Brew. He notes that a plan already developed by the community – with ambitious goals and revenue sources – will do more to end health-harming air pollution than the entity the City Council is proposing.… Read More
Kristine Kubat from Recycle Hawaii is a front line Zero Waste activist in the state. In this article from Resource Recycling Magazine, she presents her thoughts on EPR legislation and introduces the concept of “transitional EPR.… Read More
On this episode of Building Local Power, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Neil Seldman, Director of ILSR’s Waste to Wealth initiative. Jess and Neil interview Gary Liss, Vice President of Zero Waste USA, and Bob Gedert, President of the National Recycling Coalition, about the Recycling Is Infrastructure Too (RIIT) campaign and the proposed American Recycling Infrastructure Plan (ARIP).… Read More
Zero Waste USA in partnership with the National Recycling Coalition is excited to announce the National Zero Waste Virtual Conference, December 8-9, 2021… Read More
