Neil wrote a feature article, published in 2 parts in Resource Recovery Magazine (2024), on the history of the Zero Waste movement and its impact, highlighting the progress of Zero Waste.
On the Path to Zero Waste
On the Path to Zero Waste
Neil wrote a feature article, published in 2 parts in Resource Recovery Magazine (2024), on the history of the Zero Waste movement and its impact, highlighting the progress of Zero Waste.
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,…
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…
Ruth Abbe, President of Zero Waste USA has just announced “Civic and environmental organizations, small businesses, local agencies and local officials will be able to obtain free technical assistance on waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting policies and programs from the Recycling Cornucopia Program of Zero Waste USA”.
“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 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…
World Neighbors, an international development organization that helps communities lift themselves from poverty through sustainable economic and social development, today announced the Neil Seldman Grant. This generous Grant will further World Neighbors’s work to help communities in low-income countries lift themselves from poverty while protecting the environment and increasing climate resilience.