In 2018, Toledo, Ohio updated its municipal planning and zoning code (Subsection 1104.2400) to clarify definitions of agriculture and urban gardens and apply additional land...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, Natasha Duarte discusses the successes and challenges of the Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced award recipients for the historic $4.3 billion in funding for the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program (CPRG) Implementation Grants...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Domingo Morales who discussed waste equity, the future of composting in NYC,...
ILSR celebrates the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.
Family Dollar announced it plans to close 1,000 stores by the end of 2025. Communities have an opportunity to chart a different path.
Hall-Harper is a leader on blocking predatory dollar stores and rebuilding locally owned businesses.
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the...
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and...
In 2009, Maine adopted significant changes to its compost facility rules in an effort to advance the practice of composting. The revision of Maine’s composting...
An important but little-noticed court ruling in 2023 recognizes that towns and cities have broad authority to reject dollar store development.
Big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs scarce products during the pandemic, the Federal Trade Commission found in a new study.
In a new More Perfect Union video, Stacy Mitchell explains how Dollar General is a scam that’s siphoning millions of dollars from America's poorest people.
Blocking this merger is a crucial step in restoring healthy competition to food retailing,” Stacy Mitchell says in the statement…
Chicago City Council has voted to enact an ordinance that will limit development of new chain dollar stores, the largest city yet to do so.