In recent years, the incinerator industry has tried to expand their sector by marketing their facilities as “Waste to Energy” (WTE), using misleading claims of “reducing climate pollution”, and being a “clean energy source”. This document dispels some of the most common myths about incinerators with real facts.

GAIA is actively working on several fronts to promote positive solutions to waste and climate issues around the globe.

At least 15 million people around the world depend upon waste picking and the recovery of resources from waste for their livelihoods. Recovering waste resources through re-use, recycling, and composting serves to create many more jobs than waste incinerators and landfills.

Initiated in 2009 by the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters and GAIA, the Recycling Works! campaign brings together a range of stakeholders to create recycling programs that create good jobs, combat climate change, create energy independence, and revitalize community health.

A memo from ECA Watch focuses on the appropriateness of enhanced financing terms being negotiated by the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits (Participants) in response to the challenge of climate change.

Briefly describes climate benefits of Zero Waste and GAIA's recommendations.

The Stop Trashing the Climate report, written by GAIA, the Institute for Local Self Reliance and Eco-Cycle, provides compelling evidence that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and composting programs — that is, aiming for zero waste — is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies available for combating climate change.

This fact sheet was produced by GAIA, Health Care Without Harm, and Bankwatch in April 2008 to encourage the European Parliament to support sensible waste legislation.

Good legislation should guarantee that the amount of waste we produce is minimised, and what is left is safely recycled, re-used and composted. It certainly shouldn’t just encourage us to burn what we throw away.