The Green Climate Fund: Effective Community Ally or Corporate Giveaway?
The international community is creating a new entity, the Green Climate Fund, to channel up to $100bn a year to climate solutions in developing countries. In this paper, GAIA uses concrete examples...
View ArticleIncinerators: Myths vs. Facts
In recent years, the incinerator industry has tried to expand their sector by marketing their facilities as
View ArticleWaste Pickers and Allies at COP17
Once again, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies participated in the annual UN Climate Summit (COP17) and related events in Durban, South Africa, which gathered politicians, private sector...
View ArticleEgyptian NGO Takes Major Step Towards Recognition of Cairo
After three years of discussions, debates, legal advice, and cumbersome bureaucratic procedures, the Spirit of Youth NGO representing Cairo's recycling communities has finally been given the green...
View ArticleMember Profile: KKPKP and SWaCH
KKPKP, the trade union of waste pickers, itinerant waste buyers, waste collectors, and other informal recyclers in the Indian city of Pune, has helped these workers get integrated into municipal waste...
View ArticleCentral American Meeting of Recyclers Makes Plans
The Latin American Recyclers Network (Red LACRE) organized the Sixth Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Recyclers in Nicaragua, reaching out to new communities of workers and environmental...
View ArticleMore Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S.
This report shows how a stronger recycling economy would create 1.5 million new jobs in manufacturing, collection, and other careers. If done right, recycling jobs can be quality jobs with...
View ArticleEU Double Standards on Waste Management & Climate Policy
The EU's support for incinerators and landfill gas systems through the carbon market contradicts its own waste management policy.
View ArticleLetter to European Commission Protesting Carbon Credits for Incinerators and...
The EU continues allowing the purchase of carbon credits from CDM-backed landfills and incinerators in developing countries, which are responsible for increasing emissions, wasting resources and...
View ArticleNew Release: THE STORY OF CHANGE
In this new film, the Story of Change, the Story of Stuff Project calls on citizens to flex their citizen muscles: to share a big idea that gets to the heart of the problem, to work together with other...
View ArticleOrganized community defeats giant cement company in Mexico. CEMEX cannot burn...
September 24, 2012. Huichapan community, in the central M
View ArticleFacts Rule Out Trash Gasification
Since WW II attempts to gasify municipal solid waste (MSW) have failed repeatedly. Processing trash with high heat is (1) polluting; (2) expensive; (3) energy inefficient; (4) destroys resources that...
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