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News Articles
Waste and recycling campaigners win Goldman Prize
by Annie Reece, resource.uk.com
April 15th, 2013
by Annie Reece, resource.uk.com
April 15th, 2013
An Italian zero-waste and anti-incineration campaigner and a Colombian recycling campaigner named as two of the six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2013.
Phoenix Project... born again?
Haiti Grassroots Watch
January 22nd, 2013
Haiti Grassroots Watch
January 22nd, 2013
Port-au-Prince, HAITI – For more than two years, teams of US and Haitian businesspeople have been working on massive public-private business deal: a factory that would transform garbage from the capitol into electricity, a resource so rare in Haiti, only 30 percent of the population has access. But the project involves a technology so potentially dangerous, it has been outlawed in some cities and countries. It would also commit the state to a 30-year contract.
Rejected in Argentina, yet welcome in Chalai
by Aswin J Kumar, The Times of India
January 3rd, 2013
by Aswin J Kumar, The Times of India
January 3rd, 2013
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Innviron, the US-based company chosen by the state government to set up a gasification plant to treat municipal solid waste at Chalai, has a long history of 'breach of contract' and repeated failures in waste-management in Argentina.
Press Releases
Promotores de Basura Cero son destacados por el "Nobel Verde" - el Premio Ambiental Goldman 2013
April 15th, 2013
April 15th, 2013
Premiados de Colombia e Italia son lideres del reciclaje de base y de movimientos de Basura Cero.
Denuncian que en México siguen creciendo los permisos a empresas incineradoras
Difusión Cencos México D.F., 30 de septiembre de 2011. Por décimo año consecutivo, la Alianza Global por Alternativas a la Incineración (GAIA) celebra este 30 de septiembre el Día de Acción Global (DAG) contra la Basura y la Incineración para realizar un pronunciamiento global contra el uso de fondos públicos para financiar energías sucias a partir de la incineración/tratamiento térmico/ coprocesamiento de los residuos.
Nuevo estudio advierte sobre la contaminación por mercurio derivada de la quema de productos
Un nuevo estudio publicado hoy muestra que la quema de productos que contienen mercurio libera cerca de 200 toneladas de mercurio a la atmósfera cada año.
MultiMedia
Chronicle of a Fight for Inclusion
This short video tells the story of waste pickers in Bogota who worked to address their city’s garbage crisis in 2012.
Updates
Innviron suffered the fourth and final defeat in Cordoba province (Argentina)
Innviron suffered the fourth and final defeat in Cordoba province. We lacked time for describing all the long and successful process of fighting. Now this is the right time for acknowledging all those that contributed to such success.
GAIA and Allies in the News
No incineration in México City! say environmental and social organizations
Environmental and social NGOs suggested the Zero Waste strategy as the best alternative for the city.
Zero Waste In Buenos Aires (Argentina)
by Nora Goldstein, BioCycle June 2008
by Nora Goldstein, BioCycle June 2008
IN LATE 2005, the City Council in Buenos Aires, Argentina unanimously passed a law, “Integral Management Of Solid Urban Waste,” a Zero Waste law.
