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Name
Neil Seldman
Title
Director of Waste to Wealth Initiative, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Bio
Seldman co-founder ILSR, 1974, National Recycling Coalition, 1980, Grass Roots Recycling Network, 1995, Zero Waste International Alliance, 2010, Save the Albatross Coalition, 2015.
Seldman is a leading anti incineration and Zero Waste activist who was trained in the 1970s by recycling pioneers and activists in California. He works with local governments, small businesses, civic and environmental organizations to increase recovery of materials and adding value through processing and manufacturing.
Prior to 1974, Seldman worked in manufacturing and was a professor of political science at The George Washington University.
The five-letter word for recycling is LOCAL
When recycling pundits were predicting, "The future of US recycling is a five letter word - CHINA," ILSR said, "No. The five letter word is LOCAL"
Local and regional recycling is accelerating as a result of the collapse of international recycling markets in 2018 by single stream recycling and processing by Big Waste. This debacle made it clear that cities that control their materials can thrive without Big Waste and without China as they focus on clean stream recycling and local and regional market development. The private sector is responding by increased investment in domestic markets for paper, plastic, electronic scrap and organic materials.
The presentation will describe the process of monopolization of US waste and recycling and the current process of re localization in processing, composting and reuse. ILSR has recently published Monopoly Impacts on Solid Waste and Recycling Management and is preparing case studies of model enterprises in collection and processing of organic, glass, metal, paper, plastic and C&D materials. Participating companies are spread geographically across the US: Southern California, Steam Boat Springs, CO, Tulsa, OK, Twin Cities, Baltimore, MD, MN, Philadelphia, PA and Pittsburgh, PA.
Seldman is a leading anti incineration and Zero Waste activist who was trained in the 1970s by recycling pioneers and activists in California. He works with local governments, small businesses, civic and environmental organizations to increase recovery of materials and adding value through processing and manufacturing.
Prior to 1974, Seldman worked in manufacturing and was a professor of political science at The George Washington University.
The five-letter word for recycling is LOCAL
When recycling pundits were predicting, "The future of US recycling is a five letter word - CHINA," ILSR said, "No. The five letter word is LOCAL"
Local and regional recycling is accelerating as a result of the collapse of international recycling markets in 2018 by single stream recycling and processing by Big Waste. This debacle made it clear that cities that control their materials can thrive without Big Waste and without China as they focus on clean stream recycling and local and regional market development. The private sector is responding by increased investment in domestic markets for paper, plastic, electronic scrap and organic materials.
The presentation will describe the process of monopolization of US waste and recycling and the current process of re localization in processing, composting and reuse. ILSR has recently published Monopoly Impacts on Solid Waste and Recycling Management and is preparing case studies of model enterprises in collection and processing of organic, glass, metal, paper, plastic and C&D materials. Participating companies are spread geographically across the US: Southern California, Steam Boat Springs, CO, Tulsa, OK, Twin Cities, Baltimore, MD, MN, Philadelphia, PA and Pittsburgh, PA.
