We are hiring: US & Canada Failing Incinerators Project Coordinator
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 organizations and individuals in over 90 countries working for justice and a world without waste. We see waste, plastics, and their resulting pollution as symptoms of a larger, profit-driven extractive economy, and we...
read moreInternational Zero Waste Cities Conference 2019
Organized by GAIA and Consumers’ Association of Penang Hosted by Seberang Perai Municipal Council 14-15 October 2019 | Penang, Malaysia Zero Waste challenges the “take-make-waste” mode, focusing on collective responsibility and waste prevention. To date, more than 25...
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No Time to Waste: GAIA, the Goldman Environmental Prize, and a Movement to Eliminate Waste Incinerators
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%...
read moreWe are hiring: Asia Pacific Climate and Clean Energy (CCE) Campaigner
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration. Find out more here: www.no-burn.org. Many countries...
read moreGREEN GROUPS PUSH BACK ON INCINERATION PLANS IN AUSTRALIA, Calls on waste take back
MANILA, Philippines (August 15, 2019)—Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that they will stop export of recyclable waste amid rising global plastic pollution concern and pushback from Asian countries who are at the receiving end of the waste...
read moreZero Waste Academy in Indonesia
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...
read moreGreen groups call on Japan, G20 to show genuine leadership in tackling the plastic pollution crisis
MANILA, Philippines (June 28, 2019) — As the G20 summit opens in Osaka, Japan, a coalition of more than 800 environmental organizations worldwide is challenging the heads of state to show leadership in tackling the plastic pollution crisis by addressing...
read moreWe are hiring: Climate and Zero Waste Finance Associate
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 organizations and individuals in over 90 countries working for justice and a world without waste. We see waste, plastics, and their resulting pollution as a symptom of a larger, profit-driven extractive economy, and we...
read moreWe are hiring: Resource Mobilization Associate
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 organizations and individuals in over 90 countries working for justice and a world without waste. We see waste, plastics, and their resulting pollution as a symptom of a larger, profit-driven extractive economy, and we...
read moreGroups say goodbye to Canada waste, urge PH government to ban all waste imports immediately
SUBIC, Philippines (May 30, 2019) — As the Philippines bid goodbye to the Canadian waste, six years after it was discovered in the country's ports, environmental groups are calling on the government to ban all waste imports in the Philippines and ratify the Basel Ban...
read moreGreen groups call on Southeast Asian governments to resist waste imports
MANILA, Philippines (May 24, 2019) — Southeast Asian environmental non-governmental organizations are calling on their respective governments to strictly enforce bans on illegally shipped wastes from developed countries. “The recent news about waste shipments being...
read moreNew Report: The Age of Incinerators in the U.S. is Ending
Today, The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York City has released a report that confirms what we’ve long known to be true: the people who have the least responsibility for the waste crisis in the U.S.--low income communities and...
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