A Collection of web pages with useful information and insights on Zero Waste.
- Zero Waste is a target that can be achieved. The town of Hernani in the Basque Country shows what is possible in a very short time.
“In 2002, the regional waste management consortium in Spain’s Gipuzkoa Province, faced with a nearly full landfill, proposed building two new incinerators. Citizens strongly opposed the incinerators and prevented one from being built and the new party elected in 2011 stopped the second one. Hernani and two other small cities in the region established an ambitious program of door-to-door collection of source-separated waste, including organics. The amount of waste going to the landfill in places where the Zero Waste strategy has been embraced has been reduced by 80 percent. With new political leadership opposed to incineration, door-to-door collection is expanding throughout the region.” Read more - Paul Connett’s book: “The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a time”. Available from all good bookshops and Online
- Processing Organics: Compostory.org – the Story of Organic Waste Recovery. Zero Waste Europe has an interview with the Camille Duran the Executive Director of Compostory.org the website that promotes sustainable approaches to organic waste. Amongst other things Compostory has just launched a database of companies who can support communities with their resource recovery programs. In 2015 Compost.org was re-launched under the name: Organicstream.
- Zero Waste at Home – challenging the individual household to step up to the challenge of moving towards Zero Waste. The Zero Waste Home is Bea Johnston’s blog about her Zero Waste lifestyle. Yes it is possible. We have our own local example in the form of Sara’s Blog on her personal pilot trial of running a Zero Waste Home here in Derry.The Zero Waste Diet is a UK initiative that challenges each household to treat reducing household waste like going on a diet. Can YOU take the Zero Waste Diet Challenge?
- Positive examples of “Energy from Waste” the right way:
- Description of a project to create an Anaerobic Digestion Plant on the Isle of Mull
- An article from letsrecycle.com Biffa opens UK’s largest anaerobic digestion plant
- Zero Waste Europe: Principles of Zero Waste which includes:
“Waste is the expression of a badly designed economy and a Zero Waste approach is the only one that can bring sustainability to European waste practices.” - Zero Waste Europe: Set of Case Studies
- The Campaign for Real Recycling the group campaigning for proper separation-at-source recycling in the UK.
- The Story of Stuff video is listed in our our Zero Waste Videos page. It comes from the Story of Stuff project that has developed a whole collection of videos and other resources
- Zero Waste organisations:
- Zero Waste Europe the have recently added a great collection of case studies from towns that are moving towards Zero Waste.
- Facebook page for Zero Waste Alliance Ireland, there is also a Zero Waste Alliance Ireland page on Irish Environmental Network
- ZW Alliance UK. Zero Waste Alliance UK is a not for profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness for recycling materials and promoting a more sustainable approach to resource management and waste recovery.
- GrassRoots Recycling Network‘s Zero Waste page.
- Zero Waste Alliance – a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, operating as a program of the International Sustainable Development Foundation ZWA has a News & Events page and a Resources page.
- Zero Waste America – a non-profit environmental organization that promotes zero waste and provides information and analysis on related matters.
- Zerowaste New Zealand
- Local recycling companies:
- Paper recycling by Huhtamaki in Lisburn
- Plastic recycling by Cherry Plastics in Lurgan