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Putting Low-Income Youth in Charge At the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in the early 1970s, our projects started in our own community of Adams Morgan in Washington, DC. Our first foray was involvement with the Neighborhood Planning Councils (NPCs), elected youth organizations that represented a unique local institution formed immediately after the 1968 riots in…
Rural Recycling Through Community Cooperation
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…These developments in rural recycling are noteworthy as an example of how grassroots organizations can impact local decision-making to help reduce costs and increase local revenueRecycling Cornucopia Update February 2025
The Recycling Cornucopia Project (RCP) continues to work with the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table in Minneapolis, MN, Zero Waste Montgomery County in Montgomery County, MD, Mothers Out Front in Dutchess County, NY, and organized citizens in Washington County to shut down aging, polluting, and costly incinerators. In Sullivan County, NY, the RCP is assisting citizens…
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,…
Selected articles by Neil from 2018-2022
Selected articles on the political economy of wasting and recycling 2018-2022
“Response: How we really get to Zero Waste”
The December 2023 issue of Resource Recycling published my response to an earlier feature article “Balancing Responsibilty”.