From NRDC on 12. Aug, 2011
Last week, Los Angeles hosted an environmental stakeholder meeting to discuss potential reform to the way the City handles waste and recycling. This meeting is one in a series of stakeholder meetings that includes business, hauling, labor and community interests. Overall, environmental organizations endorsed making the current waste collection system more efficient system by moving [...]
From Michael Brune, Sierra Club on 26. Jan, 2011
Dear friends, It sounds almost cliché at this point … but we have become a society that throws too much away. This would be problem enough, but worsening that reality is the fact that we’re burning and burying more and more of our throwaway world every year. This, of course, has significant consequences: exhaustive and [...]
From David Pettit, NRDC on 15. Nov, 2010
Los Angeles faces three crises in how we dispose of our garbage: our waste collection system is ridiculously inefficient, our opportunities to divert and recycle trash are too few, and we are running out of landfill space. Don’t Waste LA is a broad-based group of environmental, community, faith and labor organizations working to transform LA’s [...]
The Data Shows Exclusive
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LAANE Releases Report on Failure of Commercial Waste System in LA
Full Report Executive Summary |
Mayor and Council Leaders Promise Action
LA Mayor and City Council join Don’t Waste LA's effort to change the private waste system servicing LA’s commercial and multi-family properties. The system fails to provide enough options for all Angelenos to recycle at home or at work. As a result, nearly 70 percent of the over 3 million tons of waste that LA sends to landfills every year comes from workplaces and apartment buildings. |
