En Colombia, sin inmutarse por poderosos adversarios politicos y una cultura generalizada de violencia, Nohra Padilla organizo a los recicladores en sindicatos y convirtio el reciclaje en un componente legitimo de la gestion de los residuos urbanos.

A gestao de residuos solidos foi tema de debate realizado no dia 03 de Abril na Universidade Metodista em Sao Bernardo do Campo (SP). O tema em questao era a incineracao de residuos para geracao de energia. Na mesa, Tarcisio Secoli, Secretario de Servicos Urbanos de S. Bernardo do Campo e Dan Moche, especialista em Residuos Solidos e membro da Coalizao Nacional contra a Incineracao de Lixo. Publico: mais que 1.000 pessoas.

A new report urges Metro Vancouver not to build any new waste-to-energy plants and that its existing garbage incinerator in Burnaby be phased out

Marc Lee of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ imagines a post­consumerist society that emphasizes re-design and re-use before recycling.

As garbage-burning plants proliferate, Britain could end up with too little waste to put in them

Port-au-Prince, HAITI – For more than two years, teams of US and Haitian businesspeople have been working on massive public-private business deal: a factory that would transform garbage from the capitol into electricity, a resource so rare in Haiti, only 30 percent of the population has access. But the project involves a technology so potentially dangerous, it has been outlawed in some cities and countries. It would also commit the state to a 30-year contract.

Nuevas noticias tenemos de nuestra empresa a la que recientemente se le ha rescindido el contrato de tratamiento de residuos. Esta vez las noticias nos llegan de India. Hasta aqui nada raro, el único detalle es que Innviron se esta promocionando con las supuestas plantas instaladas en Argentina. Si, leyeron bien, con lo que supuestamente hicieron en Cordoba, Bower, Río Cuarto y Villa María.

Waste is increasingly moving across EU borders, for recovery or disposal. This is true for waste shipments between EU countries, and also transfers of waste outside the EU, according to a new assessment from the European Environment Agency (EEA).

“La incineración es incompatible con la recuperación de plásticos, papeles y cartones, y rechazamos el art. 297 de la Rendición de Cuentas que habilita a empresas incineradoras en el país, cuando en el marco del MVOTMA se está discutiendo en forma participativa un borrador de ley de residuos para enviar al parlamento”, señalaron los organizadores del evento, donde se anunció el acuerdo en la creación una coalición que permita trabajar de forma unida y organizada para aportar las mejores soluciones disponibles, socialmente apropiadas y sustentables en el manejo de los residuos del país.

16 de octubre 2012. La intendenta de Montevideo, Ana Olivera, informo a comienzos de 2012 que una de las posibilidades para el tratamiento de la basura de la ciudad era la instalación de una planta de incineración de residuos y generación de energía. El 18 de octubre organizaciones nacionales e internacionales abordaran las propuestas hechas por los movimientos sociales para enfrentar el problema de los residuos en la ciudad y el pais.

Mexico, 24 de septiembre de 2012. Una historica victoria logro la comunidad organizada de Huichapan, en el estado de Hidalgo, ubicado el centro de la Republica Mexicana tras 6 meses de movilizaciones pacificas y acciones legales que llevaron a la clausura de la planta de la empresa Proambiente, filial de Cementos Mexicanos, CEMEX, por parte de la Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales.

Why don't more cities and states make it easier for us to compost? The answer: Big Trash.

Dada la presion ciudadana y los impactos socioambientales que genera la planta cementera CEMEX en el municipio de Huichapan, funcionarios de la Procuraduría Estatal al Ambiente del Estado de Hidalgo (PROESPA) realizaron inspeccion en dicha planta. En sus declaraciones posteriores, no queda claro si el titular de esta procuraduria, Salvador Aguilar actua como funcionario publico o vocero oficial de la empresa CEMEX.

As the board of a new U.N. climate fund for developing countries meets for the first time, civil society groups are pushing for it to be managed in a way that is transparent and accountable to poor communities likely to be hit hardest by climate change.

03/08/2012 El viernes 3 de agosto se llevo a cabo la segunda reunion nacional de los miembros mexicanos de GAIA. Dicha reunion fue celebrada en la Cd. de Mexico, en las instalaciones de el Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez. ”CENTRO PRODH” , donde participaron comunidades en resistencia a proyectos de incineracion de residuos solidos urbanos, residuos peligrosos, basureros a cielo abierto y falsa valoracion energetica en la industria cementera.

Waste from co-generation plant tests high for dioxins

China has long been known as a place where the world’s dirtiest mines and factories can operate with impunity. Those days may not be over, but a growing environmental movement is beginning to make the most polluting projects much harder to build and operate.

The boom in polluting waste-to-energy plants in China has led to a backlash from residents, including one man's long-running legal crusade.

China produces more than a quarter of the world's trash, a burden that the government is attempting to solve by burning some of it for energy. But the incinerators often mix waste with an even greater measure of coal, adding more global-warming gases to the atmosphere and toxic chemicals to the air of China's cities, a recent report says.

The EU is threatening waste-pickers' livelihoods and backing projects that may actually increase emissions, says report

In 2010, Connecticut produced 3.2 million tons of solid waste, of which 24 percent was recycled; 68 percent was burned at trash-to-energy plants; 7 percent was sent to out-of-state landfills and incinerators; and 1 percent was put in Connecticut landfills

Ghazipur residents oppose an incineration plant fearing harmful emissions; waste-pickers fear loss of livelihood.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Environmentalists are taking the Bloomberg administration to task over its plan to develop waste-to-energy plants -- including the controversial proposed siting of the city's first pilot project at Fresh Kills.

A group called PlymWIN will argue the city council's decision to grant planning permission was "unlawful".

ANTI-INCINERATOR protesters have begun a legal fight that could see them seek an injunction to stop construction of the multi-million-pound plant.

GREEN BAY-- "They have given false information about the project," said Clean Water Action Council President Dean Hoegger. "They've told many neighbor groups there would be no smoke stacks and no emissions. When it fact that was not true."

On 20 February 2012, the camp that the community of Apaxo, State of Mexico, had sustained since May 2009 at the entrance to the company Ecoltec (a subsidiary of Holcim) was evicted. The purpose of the camp had been to protest the deaths of eleven peasants who were exposed to toxic gases while cleaning a pit; the company is presumed responsible for the contamination.

El pasado 20 de febrero, en Apaxco, Estado de Mexico, fue desalojado el campamento que la comunidad mantenia desde mayo del 2009 frente a la entrada de la empresa Ecoltec, filial de la empresa cementera Holcim-Apasco, en protesta por la muerte de once campesinos ocurrida tras respirar los gases toxicos dentro de un carcamo que limpiaban, presumiblemente contaminado por la empresa.

A prominent Indian NGO was on Friday presented the US' first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls in recognition of its efforts in training and organising wastepickers and eliminating child labour from recycling.

For the past few days, there has been a bit of discontent among various sections of employees as Ramky officials were pressing for better performance. On Thursday morning, Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy convened a meeting of management and employees and asked them to sort out the issue.

The city may install a kinder, gentler incinerator along the Newtown Creek - but Greenpoint residents say they're the ones who would get burned.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) Region III office said it is issuing a cease and desist order (CDO) against a tire pyrolysis plant in Tabang, Guiguinto, Bulacan, that has been pointed to as the source of air pollution there for a month now.

"El pasado 20 de Febrero fuimos objeto de un segundo operativo ilegal; y sin ninguna "orden de desalojo" presuntos policias estatales encapuchados y fuertemente armados acompañados de autoridades ambientales y directivos de ECOLTEC desmantelaron el campamento que el Movimiento Pro Salud mantenia frente a la empresa desde 2009, en protesta por la posible responsabilidad de la muerte de once campesinos y las fuertes emanaciones de olores generados por dicha empresa".

A statewide environmental organization has issued awards to two grassroots groups who were recognized for their efforts to fight a proposed wood-burning plant in East Springfield.

Covanta made assurances the “majority” of work will be done by local workers. However, there is no clause forcing Covanta to use local labour; any that they do use is at their discretion.

A town council has written to community leaders elsewhere raising concerns about an £800m waste scheme which could see an incinerator built in Flintshire. There is concern an energy-from-waste incinerator could be an option.

Environmentalists said EPA's estimated average exposure, currently at 0.5–3 picograms per kilogram per day, puts a portion of the population above the EPA danger threshold.

Recycling household hazardous waste at the Pratt Recycle Center keeps dangerous polluting material out of the Pratt County Landfill. It requires special handling before it is moved from Pratt to disposal sites.

The giant MSU smokestack, visible miles away from the East Lansing campus, emits 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year, heavy metals such as mercury and small particulate ash that damages the health of Michiganders.

According to the report dioxins and DLCs are widely distributed throughout the environment and typically occur as chemical mixtures. They do not readily degrade. Therefore levels persist in the environment, build up in the food chain, and accumulate in the tissues of animals.

A new recycling machine allows customers to turn empty drink containers into cash but also raises concerns about financing the country's green sector development.

A proposed waste incinerator in Newport would damage wildlife and rare species on the Gwent Levels.

Opponents of a controversial waste incinerator between York and Harrogate have called for the scheme to be rethought after councillors raised "strong objections" to the plans.

A St Helens grandfather is concerned that plans to turn a warehouse into a waste-burning power plant could lead to toxic emissions being spewed out across town.

Once Again American Public Denied Right to Know and Ability to Protect Families from Unnecessary Exposure. Advocates Urge EPA to Immediately Release Dioxin Health Report, Decry 27 Years of Delays Due to Chemical Industry Interference.

Una comunidad de campesinos, de sonhadores que viven producto de la fertilidad de una tierra llamada Pichidegua, lucho incansablemente para derrotar a un gigante energetico de nombre Fibroandes, el Goliat.

"Too polluted an area to be married into or from" is the dubious status that young men and women of Haji Colony here have been battling for the past few years now.

A huge pile of fly ash recently discovered off Hicks Lane in north Chico has raised environmental concerns with the Butte County District Attorney's Office. The pile, which is larger in length and width than a football field and about 20 feet tall, sits on property owned by MGM Trucking and has been traced to the Pacific Oroville Power Inc. cogeneration plant in Oroville.

Recorre aqui el trabajo realizado por una delegacion de recicladores de India, America Latina y Africa, en coordinación con los grupos miembros de GAIA en Africa encabezados por Groundwork.

South Korea's major superstores declared a "No Disposable Plastic Bags" policy, resulting in zero disposable plastic bags from these stores as well as a 55 percent increase in the number of customers using reusable tote bags, which equals a CO2 reduction of 6,865 tons and a cost savings of 10 million US dollars.

Standing on the shimmering white beach and gazing out at the turquoise blue waters of the Arabian sea, it is hard to believe that a decade ago the international tourist destination of Kovalam, India was under siege by mounting heaps of garbage.

Covanta Energy, which operates four "waste-to-energy" incinerators on Long Island, Thursday withdrew its petition asking state regulators to qualify such plants for renewable energy subsidies.

This weekend was abuzz with talks of a looming Durban Mandate that would be crystallised as one of the outcomes of the Climate talks. It was for precisely this reason that more than ten thousand people took to the streets of Durban to demonstrate civil society’s determination for a common goal: climate justice.

Duban, 5 de diciembre de 2011 – Los recicladores que estan participando en la COP 17 hicieron un llamado hoy para que el Fondo Verde para el Clima de acceso directo a las comunidades y que se ponga fin a los proyectos de “valorización energética” del MDL.

Like the economic crisis that sparked the Occupy movement, climate change is about inequality.

Barcelona, 21 noviembre de 2011. Un nuevo informe publicado hoy por GAIA revela serias fallas en los proyectos de residuos solidos municipales respaldados por el Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpio (MDL). La mayoria de estos proyectos apoya la tecnologia de incineracion para quema de residuos y sistemas de captura de gas de rellenos sanitarios (GRS) para el enterramiento de los residuos, que en definitiva, incrementan los gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) y desplazan a las comunidades de trabajadores informales al despojarlos de sus medios de subsistencia, entre otros problemas.

In the coming weeks, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) is scheduled to issue Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) regulations that will require energy producers seeking "renewable energy credits" to meet strict standards.

Una reciente noticia tiene sobre alarma a diversos grupos ambientalistas y de recicladores en la region, luego de salir a la luz publica el proyecto de construccion de un incinerador de residuos para energia que seria instalado en Alajuela, Costa Rica, por un costo total de US$400 millones.

(Oct, 25th) The offer made by San Bernardo de Campo, Brazil, to choose the company that would build the Waste Processing and Energy Recovery Unit (ERU-SPAR) in the neighborhood of Alvarenga, was suspended by the State Court of Auditors (ECA ) in Sao Paulo on October 15th. The news was very welcomed and celebrated by the Brazilian Anti incineration Coalition.

25 de octubre. Una gran alegria manifestaron los miembros de la Coalicion de Brasil contra la Incineracion y los Residuos y del Movimiento Nacional de Catadores de Brasil, luego de conocer la decisión de suspender la oferta lanzada por San Bernardo de Campo para elegir la empresa que construiria un incinerador en la ciudad de 800 mil habitantes.

As renewable energy finally takes off, China, which controls 97% of the global supply of rare earth elements, vital to much renewable technology, has tightened supply. As industry and governments around the world scramble for solutions, the complex process of recycling rare earths has moved into the spotlight. Ben Messenger investigates.

Two recycling bills signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown are expected to boost the amount of material collected and recycled, and bolster the plastics recycling infrastructure in the state.

No dia 30 de setembro, marco do dia de açao global contra o lixo e a incineracao, foi realizado na cidade de Sao Bernardo do Campo o seminario tecnico “Residuos Solidos: alternativas sustentaveis”. Durante o evento a Coalizao Nacional contra a Incineracao do Lixo lancou uma campanha nacional contra os projetos de tratamento termico dos residuos solidos para geracao de energia em processo de implantacao em todas as regioes do Brasil.

This article describes an important change of EU policy that considerably reduces the scope for incineration of waste in the EU, by encouraging member countries to avoid burning compostables and recyclables in incinerators.

En septiembre se celebra el Dia de Accion Global (DAG) contra la Basura y la Incineracion. Este año, el DAG pondra de relieve los aspectos financieros que permitan detener las subvenciones publicas para la incineración de residuos, terminar con los subsidios climaticos para los incineradores y los rellenos sanitarios, y asegurar que los fondos nacionales y mundiales para el clima (incluido el nuevo Fondo Verde para el Clima) promuevan sistemas de Basura Cero.