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Recycling
News
Alameda County Waste Management Authority Heralded as One
of the Nation's Best
ILSR's new 20-page booklet, Innovation,
Leadership, Stewardship, features Alameda County's (California)
record-setting recycling programs. The county diverts almost 60%
of its municipal solid waste. The Alameda County Waste Management
Authority and the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling
Board deserve much credit. This glossy booklet -- chock full of
case studies and photographs -- features the Board's source reduction,
reuse, construction material recycling, composting, market development,
green building, and outreach initiatives.
View
press release (October 2002)
Letter to the Editor of the New
York Times about "Putting Garbage to Good Use" article (August 2002).
Read More!
Letter to the Editor of Waste
News about "Bottle talk" article (August 2002).
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Letter to the Editor of MSW Management
supporting the zero waste movement (April 2002).
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Note:
This letter has been submitted
for publication.
An edited version will appear in an upcoming issue in the fall.
ILSR Asks Senator Jeffords to
More Directly Encourage Refilling in His Senate Bill 2220, The National
Beverage Producer Responsibility Act of 2002
National legislation that couples
beverage container deposits with a minimum recovery rate is long
overdue. If passed, Senator Jeffords Senate Bill 2220, the National
Beverage Producer Responsibility Act of 2002, will fill this gap.
The bill, introduced on Earth Day, calls for a minimum 80% recovery
level and would set per container deposits on beverage containers
at 10 cents. Furthermore, it is the first national bill on beverage
containers to include an incentive to refill containers. Given
the environmental advantages of refillable beverage containers
over "one-way" containers, we are urging Senator Jeffords to strengthen
the language in the bill to more directly encourage refilling.
Specifically we'd like to see the bill provide financial incentives
to companies that convert to refilling.
For a copy of Senate Bill 2220,
click here. [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02220:]
For a copy of ILSR's written testimony:
Click here for Word
file
Click here for PDF
file
Click here for online
viewing.
For a copy of ILSR's letter in
response to Waste News's July 22nd editorial "Bottle it for a
while," click
here.
Zero Waste
Replacing Waste Management with Discards
Management in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
By Kelly Lease, Richard
Anthony, and Neil Seldman,
© Institute for Local Self-Reliance,
Washington, DC, April 2002.
Download PDF file
Reduce, Reuse, Refill! Web
Site Launched.
ILSR's new web site is the only web
site dedicated to promoting refillable beverage containers. It contains
information on policies that support refilling, where they work,
how to revive refilling in the U.S., and many links to more information.
Launched with support from the GrassRoots Recycling Network.
http://www.grrn.org/beverage/refillables/index.html
Letter to the Editor of Waste
News about "A few full-truths about WTE," article (September
2001).
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Letter to the Editor of Waste
News about "Recyclers oppose tax breaks ," article (September
2001).
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