join Thursday's webinar on how managing your leftovers can determine your Zero Waste success

[Kate Bailey]

Join Thursday's webinar on how managing your leftover waste can determine your Zero Waste success. Sign up now at www.ecocycle.org/specialreports/leftovers.

 

Getting to Zero Waste requires a strong, ongoing community focus on the 3Rs, but making a bad decision when it comes to how to manage the leftover waste can derail the entire effort. Waste incineration is the biggest threat to a Zero Waste community, and any community serious about moving toward sustainability must consider disposal options that support, rather than undermine, their diversion and recovery goals. Our new report shows the choice is not just between landfills and incinerators—there is a third new option to pre-process leftover waste that yields the lowest impact on our environment without burning or unproven black box technologies—it’s called MRBT or Material Recovery, Biological Treatment.

 

MRBT supports a Zero Waste community because it is not dependent upon a constant influx of trash and can shift from processing mixed waste to source-separated waste streams as a community improves its recycling and composting efforts. It also has the lowest environmental impact among common disposal options. It’s not a replacement for source-separation programs, but it is a great tool to help communities increase their recovery rates and decrease their environmental impacts while working to improve the efficiency of their source-separation programs.

 

Read the report to see how the city of Seattle could use MRBT to boost its recovery rate to 87% and minimize the environmental impacts of disposal. Since being released earlier this month, the report has been presented at conferences in California and Colorado, and has been featured in two UK articles. Find out more about MRBT and what it means for your community in two webinars with report authors Dr. Jeffrey Morris and Eric Lombardi on May 23rd and May 30th. Sign up today and find the full report at www.ecocycle.org/specialreports/leftovers.

 

Kate

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Kate Bailey
Eco-Cycle International Program Developer

Eco-Cycle, Inc. | Boulder, CO USA

303.444.6634 x 105
www.ecocycle.org