In the News: Neil Seldman January 28th, 2019 Media Outlet: Next City ILSR co-founder Neil Seldman argues that the market for American recyclables is quite strong. Despite China halting their imports of U.S. recycled material, there is still lots of value and potential for wealth from our own waste. Neil is quoted extensively in this … Read More
In the News: Neil Seldman August 20, 2018 Media Outlet: Governing Magazine Neil Seldman, ILSR’s co-founder and the Director of the Waste to Wealth Program authored an article for Governing Magazine. Neil breaks down why there’s reason to be hopeful despite the drastic import restrictions on recycled materials that China recently imposed. He explains how this … Read More
Proponents of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Paper, Products, and Packaging (PPP) are jumping on the “China Crisis” bandwagon by attempting to revive efforts to shift control over recycling from local government and existing recycling companies to statewide non-profit agencies under the control of Big Soda companies and their allies.… Read More
Neil Seldman and Bob Gedert explain how the consolidation of large waste disposal services led to single stream recycling, and how China’s changing rules will affect the future of that system.… Read More
In 2016, the digital economy declared a war on cash. In 2018 the people are fighting back, and governments are worried.… Read More
Clean stream recycling is the name of the game in this era of Chinese restrictions on imported recyclable materials from the US. The town of 13,000 people reinstated dual stream after five-years of single stream recycling based on economics. “It was continually costing us more per ton to recycle single-stream throughout 2017,” Eugene MacMahon, Oakland, N.J.’s recycling coordinator, as a result of China’s policies.… Read More
This week’s Weekly Picks details the myriad fights between cities and distant, consolidated industries such as investor-owned electric utilities, immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), and cryptocurrency miners. Other stories detail what localities can do in response to China’s ban on U.S. recycling scrap as well as how to build a smart city.… Read More
Could the change in China’s recycling policy lead to a municipal recycling revolution in America?… Read More
After mass citizen protests in China’s Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, government officials vowed on Wednesday to cancel plans for a waste incinerator plant. Here’s the story, reproduced from Radio Free Asia: Guangdong Protesters Hail Victory As Government Backs Down on Incinerator Plan Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong vowed on Wednesday to cancel plans … Read More
