In the framework of the new governmental policies that consider more important to privatize our natural resources, on behalf of the socalled economic development, harming people´s social and environmental development. We declare ourselves against the industrial waste dumpster that the government of the state of Sonora is stubbornly trying to build in the municipality of Pitiquito. We reject the dumpster for the following reasons:

Because it´s not a project promoted neither by the municipal government nor by the local community,but it is the government of the state who is once again trying to impose it´s will, not paying attention to the people´s opposition or the municipal legislation. READ MORE>

We write to seek your urgent support to call for the implementation of a genuine ecological waste management system in Naples, Italy.  The national network RETE NAZIONALE RIFIUTI ZERO (Italian Zero Waste Network) has been pushing for Zero Waste as an ecological alternative to dumping and burning and therefore urge the Italian government to immediately implement SOURCE SEGREGATION as an initial step towards Zero Waste. We encourage everyone to support our Italian colleagues by signing up this petition addressed to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on or before January 19, 2008.

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We, the signers of this statement, are outraged that environmental activists Gigie Cruz from the Philippines, Shibu Nair from India, and Neil Tangri from the U.S.A - representing the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives / Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) - were unrightfully detained, interrogated and deported from Indonesia by authorities at the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC). They were standing with local community groups in a peaceful assembly in Bandung against waste incineration, and for climate justice.

We are also appalled with the detention of Indonesian nationals Yuyun Ismawati of Balifokus and Roni Tabroni of the People's Alliance against the Waste-to-Energy Plant who spoke on waste incineration and the community concerns.

The global climate crisis-which studies show will put Indonesia under water without dramatic action-demands that the right to cross-border action and free speech be protected by international agencies such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It also demands that the UNFCCC take seriously the strong connection between waste and climate change, a message that Gigie, Shibu, Neil and the local activists were unjustly prevented from saying in person at the Bali climate change meetings.

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28 November 2007.:  Quezon City, Philippines; Buenos Aires, Argentina;  Berkeley, USA; Brussels, Belgium.   As the international community faces up to the looming climate change, public interest groups from over 30 countries across the globe are pushing for “Zero Waste for Zero Warming” as an urgent solution to cut back and combat greenhouse gas  emissions from dirty waste disposal technologies.   

To mark the annual Global Day of Action against Waste and Incineration, now on its sixth year, environmental health and justice groups took action to raise citizens’ opposition over the reckless marketing and financing for landfills and incinerators, highlighting the fact that dirty technologies will not clear the atmosphere of climate changing emissions.  Together, the groups called for global support for Zero Waste alternatives to dumps, landfills and incinerators.
<Visit the GDA 2007 Website>

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

< WATCH THE MOVIE HERE >

NO Incineration in South Africa!

On Wednesday, 21 November, the South African National Parliamentary Committee, the Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism will be having public hearings on South Africa's first Waste Management Bill.

NGO's and community people in South Africa have raised concern through all available means in the run up to the public hearing on the Waste Bill, for incineration to be banned as a waste management option. However, the Department of Environment and Tourism, which has been mandated to produce the Bill has rejected this concern.

We thus urge all allies globally and within South Africa to support our call for the incineration to be explicitly banned within the Waste Bill. <Read more>

Please Keep Guam Incinerator Free!

As the Ordot Dump in Guam reaches its full capacity in less than a year, the Solid Waste Law Review Commission headed by Senator James Espaldon moves to amend Public Law 25-175, a legislation that bans municipal waste incinerators and Waste-to-Energy facilities to address Guam's current waste problem. Public Law 25-175 further mandates that no public funds should be used for incineration.

These recent developments raised concerns from some government representatives and other civil society groups like the Recycling Association of Guam since they believe that incineration will not address the problem. These groups advocate for waste prevention and implementation of recycling programs as genuine solutions to Guam's problem.

We write to ask you to sign the petition addressed to the Solid Waste Law Review Commission to stress our stand against end-of-pipe solutions such as landfills and incineration. Please sign-up.<Read more >