WASTE TO WEALTH

Other Resources

• Recycling Means Big Money in the Big Apple. by Neil Seldman and Kelly Lease, © Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC, March 2002
• Life and Death in the Landfill -There is a Better Way by Neil N. Seldman, © Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC, November 2000
• The Paradigm Shift in NYC's Solid Waste Management: Citizen Perseverance Pays Off; Still a Way to Go for a Zero Waste City by Neil Seldman and Kelly Lease, ILSR. Presents a recycling-based waste management scenario for solving NYC's reliance on out-of-state landfills.
• Extended Producer Responsibility: The Next Phase of the U.S. Recycling Movement by Neil Seldman, ILSR. This article reviews Raymond Communications' Take It Back! Pacific Rim Conference, held February 28-March 1, 2000 in Los Angeles. (PDF format)
• Garbage In, Garbage Out - by Brenda Platt, ILSR, published in Washington Post, August 15, 1999. Highlighting problems with reliance on landfilling.
• Science Friday: New Elements and Trash - National Public Radio's Weekly Show had ILSR's Brenda Platt and other experts on to talk about Garbage, June 11, 1999 (Real Audio)
• Welfare for Waste: How Federal Taxpayer Subsidies Waste Resources and Discourage Recycling - GrassRoots Recycling Network, April 1999, pdf format
• Government/Community-Based Sources and Strategies for Financing Recycling Enterprises - by Neil Seldman, Self-Reliance Inc., for the National Recycling Coalition. This report outlines steps for linking recycling-based community development and small business financing, 1998
• Resources for Fighting Garbage Transfer Stations in Your Neighborhood - Materials posted here on behalf of National Union To Lobby for Environmental Organizations and Proper and Responsible Development - May 1998>
• Who's Behind The Attack on Recycling? - by Neil N. Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, December 1996
• Recycling at the Crossroads: Debating Its Potential - Remarks of Brenda Platt at the National Recycling Coalition conference, September, 1996
• The Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling - September, 1996 >
• Recycling and the New York Times - David Morris' column July 30, 1996

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