Simpler, Cheaper, Better: How cities can take the first step to financing zero waste systems
By Cecilia Allen Zero waste is expanding worldwide as a proven approach to address “the waste problem” from a...
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Voices of Resilience
The COVID crisis has made clear how essential waste workers and waste pickers are to maintaining healthy cities. As...
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Voices of Resilience
The COVID crisis has made clear how essential waste workers and waste pickers are to maintaining healthy cities. As...
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Principles for a Zero Waste Just Recovery
Transition is inevitable. Justice is not. If our cities and communities are to fully recover and rebuild from the...
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Voices of Resilience
The COVID crisis has made clear how essential waste workers and waste pickers are to maintaining healthy cities. As...
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PANDEMIC HIGHLIGHTS SOCIETY’S HISTORICAL DEBT TO WASTE PICKERS – IT’S TIME TO MAKE IT UP TO THEM.
By Magdalena Donoso, GAIA Regional Coordinator for GAIA Latin America and the Caribbean. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a...
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Zero Waste Cities: A Key Solution to the Climate Crisis
By Claire Arkin (This blog contains excerpts from this article by Mariel Vilella, and this blog by Jack McQuibban....
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From Clogged Waterways to Zero Waste
Potrero’s Journey to Zero Waste Sherma Benosa Several years ago, no one would have thought that Barangay Potrero, a...
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Asia: Home of Zero Waste Solutions
Far from being a poster child of global plastic pollution, Asia is actually a treasure trove of Zero Waste...
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Getting to a Zero Waste World, One City at a Time
Catalina Díaz’s workday starts at 6pm. She and her fellow recyclers at El Amanecer de los Cartoneros, a recycling...
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