Selected articles by Neil from 2018-2022

Here are former selected articles I wrote on the political economy of wasting and recycling

IN THE U.S.

• Dual stream recycling remains more efficient than long distance, single stream recycling

Single Stream/Dual Stream: Contending Approaches to Recycling in the US (January 2022)

• The US recycling movement of the late 1960s spurred the development of Zero Waste in our present and future

History of Modern U.S. Recycling and the Potential for Zero Waste (September 2021)

U.S. RECYCLING AND CHINA

Local recycling becomes challenged due to China’s ban on single stream recycling materials from the United States. Make sure you read the updates on this in the articles that follow:

• China’s New Recycling Import Policy and the Future of US Municipal Recycling (January 2018)

• Biggest Challenge to U.S. Recycling Isn’t China (September 2018)

RENEWED INVESTMENT IN DOMESTIC MARKETS

The Second Recycling Revolution was originally published in the National Recycling Coalition newsletter (December 2022, co-written with Susan Kinsella).

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