Over the course of three days, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in five free virtual sessions highlighting innovative tools and successful strategies that communities across the country can utilize to tackle our waste crisis. Register today to engage with experts, advocates, and volunteers who are working to shape a more sustainable, waste-free world.
Development Director
Mei Li from Food Waste Feast joins Just Zero for a conversation about cooking more sustainably to reduce food waste and how to address food waste on a larger scale.
Cooking More Sustainably with Mei Li from Food Waste Feast Read More
Every person deserves a dignified, healthy community to live in. And advancing systemic Zero Waste solutions aimed at reducing waste moves us closer to that reality.
Waste Reduction is Key to Zero Waste Read More
Reuse systems are in our reach. And they could be easily integrated into our everyday lives. Now is the time to act. Our country’s single-use culture is damaging the health of our planet and its people.
Why the United States Needs to Normalize Reuse Systems Read More
Bottle Bills are the best recycling programs for beverage containers. In fact, states with Bottle Bill programs collect and recycle beverage containers at far higher rates than states without these programs. If we are going to push for any recycling program, it needs to be this one.
What is a Bottle Bill? Read More
Environmental justice communities constantly face corporate polluters who push their way into spaces that aren’t their own. Their agenda? To make a profit burying or burning trash. And the only way corporations can do that is by building waste facilities in communities with little money, little power, and low English-speaking proficiency. The fact is, you will never find a proposal for a large landfill or an incinerator in a wealthy, white community.
Environmental Justice Communities are Not Responsible for Our Waste Crisis Read More