The Campaign

The Zero Waste for Zero Warming campaign works to strengthen community-driven movements that challenge the wasting and warming cycle, and fights to make sure that not another dime of our taxpayer money goes to trashing the climate. The campaign is guided by the “New School” 3Rs: Resist, Reinvest, Redesign.

Toxic projects like incinerators and landfills disproportionately impact low-income communities of color and tribal communities. Therefore, the Zero Waste for Zero Warming campaign is also guided by the principles of environmental justice.

The campaign is coordinated by GAIA, a global alliance of more than 500 organizations in 81 countries working for a just and toxic-free world without incineration.

But the real strength of the movement is the many organizations and community groups that are working daily to stop incinerators and landfills on the ground, to provide communities with the tools they need to implement zero waste, and to challenge the wasting and warming cycle. Several of these important groups in the U.S. can be found listed on the sign-on statement, No Incentives for Incinerators -- a position that is central to the goals of the Zero Waste for Zero Warming campaign.