{"id":16181,"date":"2017-06-12T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/working-partner-update-zero-waste-detroit\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:06:36","slug":"working-partner-update-zero-waste-detroit","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/working-partner-update-zero-waste-detroit","title":{"rendered":"Working Partner Update: Zero Waste Detroit"},"template":"","class_list":["post-16181","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-zero-waste","authors-neil-seldman"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":5517,"background_color":"","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[121],"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"

Who is Zero Waste Detroit (ZWD): a collaborative of over twenty community, environmental and environmental justice organizations in Detroit. ZWD\u2019s goal is to move the City to a solid waste management system that captures the value of the waste stream\u2014 recycling\u2014before any disposal and away from the burning or of trash. The Issue: In the mid-1980\u2019s, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[605]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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Who is Zero Waste Detroit (ZWD):<\/strong> a collaborative of over twenty community, environmental and environmental justice organizations in Detroit. ZWD\u2019s goal is to move the City to a solid waste management system that captures the value of the waste stream\u2014 recycling\u2014before any disposal and away from the burning or of trash.<\/p>\n

The Issue:<\/strong> In the mid-1980\u2019s, Detroit built the largest municipal incinerator in the world with the financial obligation to sustain it, even after selling it in the early 1990\u2019s\u2014a \u201cput or pay\u201d system. That reality was disincentive for any recycling or capture of commodities in the waste stream. The incinerator contributes to the heavy air burden at the crossroads of two major highways in a neighborhood that is predominantly low-income African American, an environmental injustice. The incinerator, Detroit Renewable Power (DRP) is now privately owned by Atlas Holdings.<\/p>\n

What ZWD has accomplished:<\/strong><\/p>\n