The Basics
Zero Waste for Zero Warming: Because no community is disposable!
GAIA is actively working on several fronts to promote positive solutions to waste and climate issues around the globe.
Clean Development Mechanism Funding For Waste Incineration: Financing the Demise of Waste Worker Livelihood, Community Health, and Climate
At least 15 million people around the world depend upon waste picking and the recovery of resources from waste for their livelihoods. Recovering waste resources through re-use, recycling, and composting serves to create many more jobs than waste incinerators and landfills.
Factsheet on wastepickers and climate change
Wastepickers reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased recycling; yet they are increasingly in conflict with "waste-to-energy" projects.
Zero Waste for Zero Warming brochure
Briefly describes climate benefits of Zero Waste and GAIA's recommendations.
GAIA's Statement of Concern on Waste and Climate Change
GAIA's position paper on waste and climate change calls for Zero Waste strategies to address global warming and rejects the false solutions of incinerators and landfill gas collection.
Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma Incineration Fact Sheet
Articulates the serious flaws with these technologies and highlights the benefits of aiming for zero waste instead.
Resources up in Flames Report
Details the economic pitfalls of incineration versus a zero waste approach in the Global South.
