zer0 waste campaign.
Baltimore’s Zero Waste Plan underscores the importance of fair development, an idea that came out of earlier conversations within the Baltimore Housing Roundtable (now the Fair Development Roundtable), a group formed to create “development without displacement” and promote community development that “highlights [the] key benefits of community ownership strategies. In the summer of 2019, the Fair Development Roundtable, along with Zero Waste Associates and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, surveyed residents to better understand the impact that waste and incineration have on communities. Many people highlighted structural inequities: lacking basic trash cans and recycling bins, not having their garbage picked up, outsiders using their communities as dumping grounds, and the health impacts of incineration. The team also surveyed community partners such as faith institutions, community development corporations, social service agencies, and larger anchor institutions (e.g., universities) to understand their vision for Zero Waste.
Zero Waste Plan
This participatory process led to an extensive report entitled Baltimore’s Fair Development Zero Waste Plan which was released by United Workers in the spring of 2020. If implemented, this will be the first Fair Development Zero Waste Plan crafted by and for grassroots communities in the U.S. Like broader national conversations around a Green New Deal, this plan lays out how Baltimore can create a just transition from an economy of extraction to that of reuse and regeneration. More specifically, it outlines the priorities of a Zero Waste system and how to achieve clean air, community power, less waste, clean communities, and more jobs. It calls for 90% of all materials discarded in the city to be diverted from landfills and incinerators by 2040, and for the City to contract with mission-based or worker-owned recycling and compost operators, and enterprises that hire local residents and pay family-sustaining wages. It also promises to establish a close partnership between elected officials, public housing and school systems, community groups, businesses, and universities and other anchor institutions throughout Baltimore City and County.
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wypr.
Environmental Advocates Protest At BRESCO Incinerator
baltimore sun.
Baltimore launches plan to get to ‘zero waste,’ starting with closure of city trash incinerator
baltimore brew.
A new commission, with no goal of scrapping the incinerator, won’t get Baltimore to zero waste
CBS Baltimore.
‘It Affects My Health’ | Protesters Call For BRESCO Trash Incinerator To Close
baltimore brew.
BRESCO protesters wall off trucks, decry a renewed contract
the johns Hopkins news-letter.
No more empty promises: Hopkins needs to join Baltimore's zero-waste movement now.