[greenyes] NYC Zero Waste Plan Now Online

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NYC Zero Waste Plan Now Online 
Green Worker Cooperatives has been part of a coalition of over 40 
organizations that have been working together over the past year to come up with a 
detailed plan the City of New York can use to reduce the amount of garbage produced 
in NYC to ZERO (or darn close to it).  That plan, "Reaching For Zero: The 
Citizens' Plan for Zero Waste in NYC" is now available online for your review.  
You can find it at: www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_other_issues/001263.html
 
For those of you in NYC, please review the report and be sure to attend the 
next City Council hearing on the City’s 20-year Solid Waste Management Plan and 
tell them that the City should be “Reaching for Zero!”  We will keep you 
updated on when and where those hearings will take place.  In the meantime, let 
your Council member and the Speaker know that you want a goal of Zero Waste in 
the 20-year Solid Waste Management Plan and refer them to the copy of 
"Reaching for Zero" that was sent to them. You can find your Council members contact 
information at: www.nyccouncil.info/constituent/member_list.cfm 

Contained in the plan are realistic and effective strategies that can be 
incorporated into the City's upcoming 20-year Solid Waste Management Plan.  A 
special thanks to all of the organizations and individuals that worked hard to 
complete this plan, especially Timothy J.W. Logan, who facilitated the process; 
and the report’s principal authors – Resa Dimino - our illustrious board 
member, and Barbara Warren, both of whom took our thoughts, concerns, real world 
case studies, and local realities, and turned them into a comprehensive 
blueprint for dealing with NYC’s garbage crisis – and the South Bronx’s health and 
job crisis. 


GWC featured at International Recycling Conference this month
Over the course of nine days beginning August 26th, the San Francisco Bay 
Area will play host to up to five conferences and mini-conferences, all of them 
focused on recycling, reuse, and other waste reduction practices such as 
deconstruction.  As part of the GrassRoots Recycling Network’s “Zero Waste Action 
Network Conference” on August 26th, GWC’s Omar Freilla will be presenting on 
GWC’s work and the vision for a green manufacturing industry based on 
environmental and economic justice.  If you live in the Bay Area or are already 
planning on attending this international gathering, or any of the other conferences, 
please come through and check out what we have to say.  For more info on the 
Zero Waste Action Network conference go to http://www.grrn.org/