New report provides compelling evidence that aiming for zero waste is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies for combating climate change.

Bajo el lema SI TOCAN A UNO, TOCAN A TODOS, diversas agrupaciones de recicladores argentinas se reunieron frente a la Embajada de Colombia en Buenos Aires en solidaridad con los recicladores de Bogota.

8th August 2010. Bir, Himachal Pradesh. 50 participants representing 24 organizations across the Himalayas assembled at Deer Park Institute in Bir, Himachal Pradesh from 5th to 8th August 2010 to discuss their concerns on climate change and waste, and decided to work together beyond borders to stop trashing Himalayas and to restore it to a clean, ecologically sound, just, peaceful and healthy Himalayas.

Brussels, Belgium. 30th June 2010. GAIA’s new report “When the EU wastes the climate” warns about the negative impacts on the climate and sustainability stemming from current EU policies to reward energy from incineration.

Join the People of Detroit on Saturday, June 26 for a Rally, March & Mass Demonstration to End the World’s Biggest Waste Incinerator Rally at 9 am in front of Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward

Ananda Lee Tan, GAIA's North American Program Coordinator raises serious concern on the recently published article in New York Times entitled “Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags”

GAIA warns about the nomination of Connie Hedegaard as EU commissioner for climate action because of her support to a dirty technology such as incineration. When compared the emissions of an incinerator produce more CO2 [1] than a gas or coal power plant.

Entre tanto traje, corbata, sonrisa kolynos como si nada pasara y el mundo tuviera todavia otro mundo remplazable que lo estuviese aguardando, los recicladores de india y america latina les enseñaron ante el grito de "vamos a reciclar y no a incinerar" como se vienen ganando la vida dignamente desde hace decenas de años. Parece de no creer, pero todos los medioambientalistas del mundo y delegados oficiales de las diferentes naciones, no consiguen embocarle al buen recipiente diferenciado de residuos, y toda la cantidad de desechos que producen todas estas personas por dia en el Bela Center (sitio donde se desarrolla las Negociaciones de esta Conferencia numero 15) termina mezclado entre 4 tarros diferentes, para plastico, papel, organicos, botellas y otros.

Please sign this open letter to be delivered to climate negotiators in Copenhagen. The new climate treaty must support efforts to increase recycling through the informal sector, instead of funding incinerators and landfill gas systems.

Copenhagen, 7 December 2009 – Fifteen million people worldwide make a living from waste picking. They collect, sort, clean and in some cases, process these recyclables, returning them to industry as an inexpensive and low-carbon raw material. Wastepickers are incredibly efficient recyclers – and can achieve recycling rates higher than 80%. Their recycling work reduces emissions up to 25 times more than incineration does. Wastepickers significantly reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions through recycling rates, and could further reduce emissions given proper support.

Wastepickers from Pune, India share their insights on Climate Change. Video created by KKPKP.

Wastepickers from Pune, India share their insights on Climate Change. Video created by KKPKP.

3 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark. As the world’s governments convene here in Copenhagen to solve the unfolding climate crisis, polluting industries are putting up a fight. The incinerator industry, one of the world’s dirtiest, is trying to repackage itself as a “climate solution” in order to grab climate subsidies meant to support the development of clean technologies.

New Film by Story of Stuff Creator Offers Provocative, Humorous Look at CAP & TRADE on Eve of Copenhagen Summit San Francisco, CA -- The Story of Stuff Project and Climate Justice Now!—an international network of climate justice advocates—will release The Story of Cap & Trade, a 9-minute animated film on carbon trading, on December 1st worldwide at www.storyofstuff.org.

Some of the poorest people on the planet – the waste pickers from India and Latin America – are planning to lobby world leaders at the Copenhagen summit on climate change next month.

(Parade lion waste monster to warn people of health and environmental hazards of wasting) In an audacious demonstration of solidarity and resolve, environmental advocates today vowed to redouble their efforts in pursuing sustainable consumption and Zero Waste solutions to help avert the climate crisis.

15 September 2009, Alaminos City, Philippines. The City of Hundred Islands is taking further action to promote a vibrant and eco-conscious city by embracing and nurturing a vision en route for Zero Waste.

Come and be inspired to take action on the world's most pressing problem – climate change. Fathom Events and Spanner Films are partnering to bring to the US the critically acclaimed The Age of Stupid Live from New York.

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives / Global Anti Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) would like to invite our members and allied groups to join our 8th Global Day of Action against Waste and Incineration on September 30, 2009.

Pieces of Zero: GAIA Zero Waste Study Tour Report held August 16 to 20, 2009 in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India.

18 February, 2009. Naples, Italy. Around 150 experts, professionals, government leaders and environmental activists from more than 20 countries around the world gather in Naples, Italy for the 5th Zero Waste International Dialog from February 18 to 21, 2009 to tackle waste issues.

GAIA's position paper on waste and climate change calls for Zero Waste strategies to address global warming and rejects the false solutions of incinerators and landfill gas collection.

Dramatically decreasing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators will reduce greenhouse gas emissions the equivalent to closing 21 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants - comparable to leading climate protection proposals such as improving national vehicle fuel efficiency.

Wael Hmaidan, executive director of IndyACT, said "Climate change threatens our security and our economy more than any political problem we have at home or abroad, but unfortunately it is not considered as a priority by any of the political parties in Lebanon."