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Are you concerned about leaking landfills and polluting incinerators in New York?
Do you want to promote recycling and waste reduction?
Join the new NYS Zero Waste Campaign
For the first time in over a decade, we have a critical opportunity to influence the state's solid waste policy. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is revising the state’s weak Solid Waste Management Plan and outdated Solid Waste Regulations (Part 360).
Join a statewide coalition of concerned citizens and groups to press the state to incorporate 21st century "Zero Waste" principles into its solid waste policies. NY lags behind many states in recycling and composting and remains heavily dependent on polluting garbage incinerators and landfills. In many municipalities, recycling and waste diversion rates have been declining, and existing NYS policy has done little to turn this dismal situation around. We have an opportunity to move toward Zero Waste in New York, but we need your involvement.
You can join the Zero Waste Campaign Click Here for Form
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED THE ZERO WASTE CONFERENCE
Thank you for making our Zeroing Out Waste Conference such a success! With your help we can build the coalition necessary to push the state towards Zero Waste policies.
At the conference we heard from speakers Paul Connet, Neil Seldmen, Resa Dimino, and Barabara Warren as to what Zero Waste is and how to implement it into our state and local waste systems and how this will support more sustainable, green jobs in reuse and recycling. We also heard from each other about the issues we are dealing with on local levels and what actions we have taken in our local communities to reduce waste. We hope that you found the discussion groups interesting and useful and that these brainstorming sessions will allow us to work on new and effective solutions to push the state towards Zero Waste policies.
 
Barbara Warren, Executive Director Neil Seldman,
President of the Institute
for Local Self-Reliance
 
Judith Enck, Deputy Secretary Paul Connett,
International Researcher on Waste
of the Environment
Check out the Zero Waste Alliance Newsletter
Click Here
Check Out Stop Trashing the Climate
Stop Trashing the Climate provides compelling evidence that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, andcomposting programs that is, aiming for zero waste — is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies available for combating climate change.This report documents the link between climate change and unsustainable patterns of consumption and wasting, dispels myths about the climate benefits of landfill gas recovery and waste incineration, outlines policies needed to effect change, and offers a roadmap for how to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within a short period.
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Significantly decreasing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators will reduce greenhouse gas emissions the equivalent to closing 21% of U.S. coal-fired power plants. This is comparable to leading climate protection proposals such as improving national vehicle fuel efficiency. Indeed, preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and composting are essential to put us on the path to climate stability |
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