Zero Waste Solutions

Person returning empty bottle at reverse vending machine as part of the Bottle Bill program

What is a Bottle Bill?

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.

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Environmental Justice Communities are Not Responsible for Our Waste Crisis

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.

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Disposable, plastic form set on fire is melting and smoking.

What is “Advanced Recycling?” The Ugly Truth is a Smoke-and-Mirrors Act

Deceptively named false solutions like “advanced recycling,” “chemical recycling,” and “molecular recycling” are nothing more than a magic act. Fossil fuel giants use smoke-and-mirrors to pretend that they’ve somehow made single-use plastics “sustainable.” But in reality, “advanced recycling” is just a different way to burn plastic.

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