Stephanie Compton and Dante Swinton, Energy Justice Network, a national organization based in Philadelphia with a long record of work in Baltimore, are working to...
…material reuse through for-profit and nonprofit operations is a mechanism for the redistribution of material wealth. The businesses also have a positive impact on job...
ILSR has been assisting grass roots organizations in Baltimore to fend off new incinerators and shut down an existing aging and polluting garbage incinerator in...
The contending approaches to Extended Producer Responsibility can be boiled down to one question: Can you trust the petroleum/plastic industry?… Read More
Closing the Hartford incinerator has been a long term goal of recyclers and environmental activists in the region. … Read More
Waste Dive reports on bans that will help preserve the state’s landfill capacity.… 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...
Chemical, or advanced, recycling is another name for incineration. It’s the most expensive and most polluting way to manage plastic and other discards.… 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
Diane Wittner’s Comments Sent to Michael Beichler, Solid Waste Management Bureau Chief, Baltimore County, MD, December 21, 2021. … Read More
This document explains why ILSR and many allied organizations are skeptical about adopting EPR for packaging and traditionally recycled materials and suggests a better way...
After two decades of a headlong rush to single stream recycling collection programs across the US, are they still the best positioned to take us...
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...
The REDUCE Act would establish a new incentive to recycle plastic and to address plastic waste in our ecosystems by imposing a 20-cent-per-pound fee on...
ILSR’s Investing in Zero Waste Infrastructure webinar will take place January 18th. … Read More
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