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Reflections on Neil Seldman Upon His Retirement From ILSR
David and Neil Seldman were co-directors of ILSR from 1973 until 2013. He is a prolific author whose work includes We Must Make Haste Slowly: The Process of Revolution in Chile, 1973, Neighborhood Power: The New Localism, 1976, and Self-Reliant Cities, 1982, among numerous technical reports, articles and essays on localism and democracy.
Report: Big Money Choking Environmental Solutions
“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.
2022-2023 Projects
If your community and/or organization would like to be considered as a Recycling Cornucopia Project please complete this form (I/P). Plan to provide your name, the name of your organization and location. Briefly describe the Zero Waste challenge you are facing: a proposed incinerator, an existing incinerator, a proposed mega landfill, poor recycling, reuse and composting programs that need to be improved, how to access federal infrastructure investment funding, or developing a Zero Waste Plan and Implementation Schedule.
Neil’s newest feature articles in Resource Recycling Magazine
Feature articles on the progress Zero Waste in the US by Neil Seldman in Resource Recycling Magazine, April and June 2024
From the Age of Coal to the Age of Plastic: Two Books and the Struggle to End the Plastic Age
A Review of Robert Gedert, Untangling Plastics: The Missing Link in Mitigating Climate Change (River Grove Books, 2026), and Judith Enck with Adam Mahoney, The Problem With Plastic (The New Press, 2025) By Neil Seldman Every age leaves behind a defining environmental legacy. The nineteenth century was the Age of Coal. Its factories transformed economies,…
Early History of the Recycling Movement and the NRC
Presentation by Rick Anthony and Neil Seldman, November 19, 2024 The U.S. recycling movement emerged organically in the 1970s from grassroots activism across the country, catalyzed by events like the 1969 Survival Walk from San Diego to Sacramento and the first Earth Day in 1970. What began as drop-off centers evolved into curbside collection programs,…