Zero Waste

• For current info on Zero Waste, see the following websites:  American Environnmental Health Studies Project, Zero Waste International Alliance, Grassroots Recycling Network, & California Resource Recovery Association.
• Zero-Waste Family Maintains Normal Lifestyle, Huffington Post, 2/21/11.
• US EPA report of Sept. 2009 shows how waste reduction & recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
• Non-profit Product Policy Institute (PPI) mission is to prevent waste & promote sustainable production & consumption practices through good governance.
• Recyling Becomes a Growth Business, Star Tribune, December 11, 2011.
• GreenBlue Works to Take the Confusion Out of Recycling Labels, GreenBiz.com, October 20, 2011.
• Scavengers Leave Dumps to Speak Out at U.N. Climate Conference, Mother Nature Network, December 3, 2010.
• Waste Not:  Seattle’s Road to Zero Trash, YES!, August 16, 2010.
• Maine Town Rolls Out Trash Metering, Environmental News Network, August 23, 2010.
• U.K. Retools Trash Policy to Hit Zero Waste, GreenBiz.com, July 30, 2010.
• UN Incineration Plans Rejected by World’s Rubbish-Dump Workers, guardian.co.uk, August 5, 2010.
• “Garbage Dreams”, film preview by Mai Iskander w/ GAIA, May 2010.
• Los Angeles Will Pay Residents to Recyle, Good Blog, March 11, 2010.
• “Built to Trash: Is Heirloom Design the Cure for Consumption?”, In These Times, October 21, 2009.
• Nudging Recycling from Less Waste to None, NYTimes, October 20, 2009.
• Slide Show Demonstrates Zero Waste on Nantucket Island, NYTimes, October 8, 2009.
• BEWARE!  Is It Really Zero Waste?
• Soil Is the Solution, 6th Annual Zero Waste International Alliance Conference, November 2009.
• What You Should Know About Plastics & the Benefits of Plastic Recycling, Clean Energy Coalition of W. Wisconsin, January 2009.
• Austin, Texas – Zero Waste
• Wastepickers of the World Unite at Climate Talks, Google.com, 11/8/09.
• 95% of Cape Town’s Green Waste Recovered for Organic Composting, Organic Consumers Association, September 17, 2009.
• It’s Garbage–& it’s on the St. Paul Council’s Agenda, Star Tribune, August 5, 2009.
• Carver County Composting a Model for the Nation, KARE 11, August 2, 2009.
• One Silver Lining of the Economic Downturn, Star-Tribune, August 2, 2009.
• A Scrap of Decency, NYTimes.com, August 4, 2009.
• New Washington County Waste Center to Open in August 2009, click.
• The Nation’s Most Ambitious Recycling Law, by Gavin Newsom (Mayor of San Francisco), HuffingtonPost.com, June 23, 2009.
• San Francisco OK’s Toughest Recycling Law in U.S. by John Cote’, S.F. Chronicle, 6/10/09.
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, a 20-minute, highly-accessible video about how to move toward sustainability and zero waste.
• What a Waste; Recycling Food, by Addie Broyles of Austin,TX American-Statesman, Star Tribune, June 14, 2009.
• Downtown Atlanta Recycles Itself into a Zero Waste Zone by Erin Levin, April 23, 2009.
• If Frederick County, MD Does not Proceed with an Incinerator, What is the Alternative? by Caroline Eader, April 16, 2009.
• Reduce Trash Sent to Incinerator, Cape Cod Times, March 17, 2009.
• A Trashed Economy Foretold: Intake at Landfills Has Been Falling, Washington Post, March 14, 2009.
• New Project to Make 11 Islands Waste-Free, Associated Press, February 12, 2009.
• Resources Promoting Waste Minimization & Opposing Incineration, Oregon Physicians for Responsibility, January 2009.
• Austin Passes First Zero Waste Plan in Texas, January 16, 2009.
• Zero Waste Activism Takes on Global Warming, Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #989, December 11, 2008.
• Pollution Credits Let Dumps Double Dip, Wall St. Journal, 10/20/08.
• Ten Points on Zero Waste, Guy Crittenden, July 22, 2008.
• Zero Waste for Zero Warming, GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives), 2008.
• Recycling Means Business, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2006.
• St. Paul Environnmental Roundtable (a very forward-looking set of recommendations adopted by St. Paul City Council in April 2006)
• European Parliament Adopts Strict Waste Reduction Law, 2/13/07.
• Oakland resolution, 2006.
  
• San Francisco resolution, 2002.
  
• The State of Delaware, one of the most pro-business states in the nation, passed strict legislation banning the construction of new garbage incineration facilities.
• Executive summary (PDF) of the report “Resources up in Flames: The Economic Pitfalls of Waste Incineration versus a Zero Waste Approach in the Global South“
• Aiming for Zero Waste: Ten Steps to Get Started at the Local Level (PDF)