How Manufactured Demand pushes what we don’t need and destroys what we need most

Yuyun Ismawati, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia: As waste management problems mount throughout the Indonesian archipelago, Yuyun Ismawati implements sustainable community-based solutions that provide employment opportunities to low-income people and empower them to improve the environment.

US Social Forum organizers called for a mass demonstration at the Detroit Incinerator to push the Mayor to expand curbside recycling throughout Detroit and to end incineration of Detroit's trash.

GAIA partners with Working Films to create a new widget, a social networking tool to raise awareness about the importance of recycling and zero waste!

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

Professor Paul Connett giving a presentation to Guernsey, Channel Island on his Zero Waste Strategy. Held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre on the 23rd of February 2010.

GARBAGE DREAMS, winner of 18 awards follows three teenage boys growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This film provides a penetrating look into their lives and their community, where tradition is clashing with globalization – a window into one of the world’s hidden populations, the wastepickers.

Part 4, Background: Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, PhD., environmental scientist, offers a comprehensive introduction to explain the science and problems behind pyrolysis, gasification and plasma incineration.

Part 3, Background: Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, PhD., environmental scientist, offers a comprehensive introduction to explain the science and problems behind pyrolysis, gasification and plasma incineration.

Part 2, Background: Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, PhD., environmental scientist, offers a comprehensive introduction to explain the science and problems behind pyrolysis, gasification and plasma incineration.

Part 1, Background: Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, PhD., environmental scientist, offers a comprehensive introduction to explain the science and problems behind pyrolysis, gasification and plasma incineration.

Baby Mohite with the wastepickers trade union KKPKP discusses the connections between wastepicker livelihood and environmental protection at the COP 15 climate talks.

Wastepickers from Pune, India share their insights on Climate Change. Video created by KKPKP.

Wastepickers from Pune, India share their insights on Climate Change. Video created by KKPKP.

New Film by Story of Stuff Creator Offers Provocative, Humorous Look at CAP & TRADE on Eve of Copenhagen Summit San Francisco, CA -- The Story of Stuff Project and Climate Justice Now!—an international network of climate justice advocates—will release The Story of Cap & Trade, a 9-minute animated film on carbon trading, on December 1st worldwide at www.storyofstuff.org.

Words & music by Ro J Goodwin In this world of insanity We just need a little purity We are sick with pollution And we don’t want their solution We’re not asking for charity All we want is some clarity Burning waste for the sake of wealth Makes no sense if you lose you health

The city council of Zagreb is planning to build an incinerator. The Croatian wing of Friends of the Earth "Zelena Akcija" (Green Action) is informing the public of the negative consequences of such an extremely polluting and expensive way of disposing waste, now the people of Zagreb still have time to react to the plan.

Learn how incinerators work and what are the possible impacts to community health and the environment. Take the Greenpeace Incinerator Tour now!

Learn about the ABCs of composting in a video prepared by Thanal based in Kerala, India.

Plastic bags pollute our waters, smother wetlands and entangle and kill animals. In fact, approximately one million plastic bags pollute San Francisco Bay each year. Trash in the Bay flows into the ocean to join the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating island of trash estimated at twice the size of Texas where plastic particles are more abundant than plankton

Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh: Working to reduce the impact of Bangladesh’s exploitative and environmentally-devastating ship breaking industry, leading environmental attorney Rizwana Hasan led a legal battle resulting in increased government regulation and heightened public awareness about the dangers of ship breaking.

Olga Speranskaya, Moscow, Russia: Russian scientist Olga Speranskaya transformed the NGO community in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia into a potent, participatory force working to identify and eliminate the Soviet legacy of toxic chemicals in the environment.

Puto Toxic Waste Incinerator Disaster by Zelena Akcija, Croatia

The children's view and concerns about mass burn incineration. Produced by St. Dennis Anti-Incinerator Group, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Sonia S. Mendoza, Chairperson for the Mother Earth Foundation talks about how incinerators were banned in the Philippines.

The transformation of a simple village girl into a fierce defender of her community.

Dr. Paul Connett and others oppose the government of Ontario's plan to burn waste for energy supply. Part 1 of a series from the press conference of March 29, 2007.

Laila Iskandar of the firm “Community and Institutional Development” talks about garbage recycling in Cairo, Egypt. “What it strikes me about the recyclers of the world (the garbage collectors, the scavengers) is that they delight in recovering what we, with such great disrespect, throw away,” Iskandar said.