By Sirine Rached, GAIA Global Policy Advocate 2019 saw intensifying climate chaos and mobilization for decisive action. Days before COP25 was due to start in Madrid under Chile’s presidency, the UN Environment Programme announced that countries had to cut their...
2019 was an exciting year for the GAIA network. Our members’ achievements were too numerous to count, so we put a few highlights here. What are YOUR big victories of 2019? Write to us at info@no-burn.org or tag us on social media! We helped pass groundbreaking new...
A Texas Free From Pollution Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) has been organizing around its vision for a “Texas free from pollution” since 1991. In its early years, TCE helped get recycling and household waste in major Texas cities. In 2001, TCE helped close...
By Adi Varshneya, Zero Waste Communities Coordinator, GAIA US & Canada What’s wrong with America Recycles Day? “America Recycles Day” and its host organization, Keep America Beautiful both have nice-sounding names, but that’s part of the problem. While the...
Questions and Answers: Chemical Recycling Industry is now pushing for a new technological fix for plastic waste, called “chemical recycling.” New proposals are popping up in Australia, the EU, Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand, and the U.S., increasingly...
Zero Waste Kiel e.V., Germany Interview with Marc Delapierrière from Zero Waste Kiel, by Rossella Recupero Hi Marc, can you give us a brief introduction to Zero Waste Kiel e.V.? Hi, of course! Zero Waste Kiel e.V. was founded in 2016 and has been a member of the...
