Host Margot Adler speaks with a freelance writer in Brooklyn who got curious about household waste and set out to learn where her own garbage goes.
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Elizabeth Royte
is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, National Geographic and other magazines. Her most recent book is Garbageland: On the Secret Trail of Trash.
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Host Margot Adler questions law professor Nick Robinson about trash and the laws governing its disposal.
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Nicholas Robinson
is co-director and founder of the Center for Environmental Legal Studies at Pace Law School, where he teaches a number of environmental law classes. He served as the former general council of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He is the author of numerous books, including "Environmental Law and Treaties of the United States," "Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation," and "Strategies Toward Sustainable Development: Implementing Agenda."
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Free-market advocate Adrian Moore and grassroots recycler Neil Seldman take on the 70s-era solution to waste disposal: recycling.
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Adrian Moore
is vice president of research at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. Moore oversees all of Reason Foundation’s policy research and conducts his own research on government regulation and finance. Moore, who has testified before Congress, regularly advises federal, state and local officials on policy initiatives.
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Neil N. Seldman, PhD.
is founder and president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He co-founded the National Recycling Coalition and the GrassRoots Recycling Network. He has written extensively on the history of the U.S. recycling movement and contributes a column to Biocycle Magazine.
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Nick Robinson returns to discuss the federal regulation of landfills.
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Reporter Charles Lane tells the story of Riverhead, New York, a community that's trying to turn its closed landfill into marketable resources.
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Host Margot Adler speaks to a leading authority of the movement about what "zero waste" means and whether it's even possible.
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Eric Lombardi
is currently the executive director of Eco-Cycle, Inc. the largest community-based recycling organization in the U.S. Co-founder of the global Zero Waste International Alliance, based in Wales, he is often a keynote speaker and consultant on the social and technical aspects of creating a “Zero Waste - Or Darn Near” society.
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