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...
CESTA, Amigos de la Tierra, El Salvador Interview with Ricardo Navarro, founder and president of CESTA and 1995 Goldman Prize recipient, by Camila Aguilera CESTA, the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology, was founded in 1980 and it is El Salvador’s...
By Claire Arkin This piece was originally published on the Goldman Environmental Prize website. Do you know where your waste goes? While we’d like to think that most of it gets recycled into a new product, in reality the U.S. recycles only 25.8% of waste and 12.8%...
Zero Waste Academy in Indonesia Creating zero waste communities, one city at a time by Maria Sonia G. Astudillo Zero Waste Asia is no longer a dream but a possibility. GAIA-Asia Pacific and YPBB held the 1st Zero Waste Academy (ZWA) in Indonesia this past month of...
