Action Alerts
Support movement of local organizations against ECOLTEC (Holcim-Apasco)in Mexico
(August 16th)Your help is needed in gathering support and strengthening the movement of local organizations against ECOLTEC, a subsidiary of the swiss multinational HOLCIM, in the community of Apaxco-Atotonilco, in Mexico state (also in spanish).
EPA To Hold Three Public Hearings on Rules Cutting Toxic Emissions from Boilers, Solid Waste Incinerators
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold three public hearings in June on proposals cutting mercury emissions in half and significantly reducing other toxic air pollutants from industrial and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators. The public may preregister to speak at the hearings at a specific time. People also may register in person on the day of the hearing, but may not be given a specific time slot to speak
Join the Garbage Dreams tour, take action and spread the word!
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!
BE A VOICE: Should the U.S. Burn or Bury Its Trash?
The NY Times has followed up Elisabeth Rosenthal's pro-incinerator industry article, with a public debate on their online Opinion Page: Should the U.S. Burn or Bury Its Trash? Why is Europe ahead of the U.S. in embracing clean incinerators that turn garbage into energy? Have your say. Now!
EU/IPPC: Control of Emissions from Incinerators should Increase, Not Decrease
Take Action: Warn Members of the European Parliament about the dangerous IPPC vote of April 7th.
ACT: Incinerator Threatens Health and Credibility of Food Industry in Parma
Parma is known all over the world for its Parmesan Cheese, Parma ham, wine and pasta but the local authorities are threatening to build an incinerator a stone's throw from the city centre. This will not only jeopardise recycling, composting and the health of the citizens, but also the credibility and safety of Parma's food industry, the main pillar of the local economy.
Please put pressure on the administrators and food producers so that they demand the authorities stop this project and go for a sustainable solution.
ACT NOW! Protect the Climate through Recycling!
Please sign this open letter to be delivered to climate negotiators in Copenhagen. The new climate treaty must support efforts to increase recycling through the informal sector, instead of funding incinerators and landfill gas systems.
Stop RDF Plant and Dumping in Perungudi Landfill, Chennai
Support our call to ask the High Court of Madras to direct the Chennai Municipal Corporation to opt for Zero Waste systems to address the current dumping at the Pallikaranai Marsh.
ACT/USA: Keep incinerators and other waste technologies out of the U.S. Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)
The incinerator industry is pushing hard to have municipal solid waste incineration added to the renewable standard in the Waxman-Markey climate bill and in the Senate's renewable energy standard.
ACT/EU: Push your Ministers to Support a Biowaste Directive
The negotiations about the potential new bio-waste directive are facing serious difficulties and we really risk not having a bio-waste directive at all. As you know most of biowaste in the EU is either landfilled or incinerated and the since the landfill directive is getting bio-waste out of landfills without saying where it should go, the reality is that it will end up in incinerators instead of being composted. Therefore we need to act to put pressure on the environment ministries to ask the European Commission to prepare a bio-waste directive.
