The Facts

What is zero waste? How are waste and warming connected? And why do we need better solutions than incinerators? Get the facts on the pages in this section. 

Here are a few facts to get you started:

• Zero waste means reducing what we trash in landfills and incinerators to zero.
• Our constant trashing of things like paper and plastic bottles drives a wasteful cycle that is cooking our planet.
• Incinerators emit more greenhouse gases per unit of electricity generated than coal-fired power plants. And landfills are the largest human-made source of methane - a global warming gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
• Climate change—the most pressing issue of our time—demands that we put an end to the wasteful systems that have gotten us into this mess in the first place.