“How Waste Monopolies are Choking Environmental Solutions, and What We Can Do About It,” delves into the issue of concentrated corporate power in the waste sector in the United States.
The December 2023 issue of Resource Recycling published my response to an earlier feature article “Balancing Responsibilty”.
Summary of Neil’s review: In his review of Jeremy Brecher’s The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People are Building a Just Climate-Safe Economy, Neil Seldman highlights the “little-noticed wave of initiatives” by ordinary citizens, community groups, unions, and local governments working to build a just, climate-safe economy from the ground up. Brecher’s book…
Amid new producer responsibility action in states such as Colorado, New York and Hawaii, Neil Seldman weighs in on the best way to approach this policy going forward…
Summary of Neil’s review: In Edward Humes’ Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides an excellent introduction to the plastic crisis, combining revealing facts with profiles of entrepreneurs, researchers, and activists working on waste solutions. Humes’ clear prose describes the ubiquity of microplastics and their…
Zero Waste USA consulted with South Orange Village officials who followed through and changed their recycling collection process.