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Global Day of Action Against Waste and Incineration |
Citizens’ Groups Reject Dirty Waste Technologies,
Call for “Zero Waste for Zero Warming:”
28 November 2007. Quezon City, Philippines; Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Berkeley, USA; Brussels, Belgium. As the international community
faces up to the looming climate change, public interest groups from
over 30 countries across the globe are pushing for “Zero Waste for Zero
Warming” as an urgent solution to cut back and combat greenhouse gas
emissions from dirty waste disposal technologies.
To mark the annual Global Day of Action against Waste and Incineration,
now on its sixth year, environmental health and justice groups took
action to raise citizens’ opposition over the reckless marketing and
financing for landfills and incinerators, highlighting the fact that
dirty technologies will not clear the atmosphere of climate changing
emissions. Together, the groups called for global support for Zero
Waste alternatives to dumps, landfills and incinerators.
 | In celebration of the Global Day of Action against Waste and Incineration, protestors from different environmental groups install a huge signage with a mock padlock that says “DENR Closed for inaction against climate-changing pollution from toxic dumps, landfills and incinerators” at the gates of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. (Photo by Gigie Cruz/GAIA)
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Global Day of Action -SPAIN |
Grups ciutadans rebutgen les tecnologies brutes de gestió de residus
i demanden “Escombraries Zero per a Escalfament Global Zero”
28 de novembre 2007: Catalunya; Quezon, Filipines; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berkeley, EUA; Brussel·les,
Bèlgica. Mentre la comunitat internacional enfronta l'apressant
problema del canvi climàtic, grups ciutadans de més de 30 països
impulsen “Escombraries Zero per a Escalfament Global Zero” com una
solució urgent per a reduir i combatre les emissions de gasos d’efecte
hivernacle provinents de tecnologies brutes de tractament i disposició
de residus.
En el Dia d'Acció Global contra els residus i la
incineració, que es realitza anualment i ja va pel seu sisè any,
agrupacions de salut i justícia ambiental de tot el món porten a terme
accions per a mostrar l'oposició ciutadana que existeix a la
irresponsable promoció i finançament d’abocadors i incineradores de
residus, subratllant el fet que les tecnologies brutes no netejaran
l'atmosfera de les
emissions que afecten el clima. Junts, els grups
demanden brindar un suport mundial a les alternatives d'Escombraries
Zero, que abandonin l'ús d’abocadors i incineradores. |
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Global Day of Action Against Waste and Incineration- IRELAND |
Citizens' Groups
Reject Dirty Waste Technologies,
Call for “Zero
Waste fro Zero Warming:”
8 November 2007.
Galway, Ireland; Quezon City, Philippines; Buenos
Aires, Argentina; Berkeley, USA; Brussels, Belgium. As
the international community faces up to the looming climate change,
Galway for
a Safe Environment joined public interest groups from over 30 countries
across the globe are pushing for “Zero Waste for Zero Warming” as an
urgent
solution to cut back and combat greenhouse gas emissions from dirty
waste
disposal technologies.
Kieran Cunnane, chairperson
of Galway for a Safe Environment (GSE) expressed the group's
support to
the promotion of Zero Waste as a core strategy in preventing and
reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, saying that “waste policies, programs and
funds must
prioritize waste prevention, reduction, reuse, repair, recycling and
composting
as concrete measures to save energy and avoid greenhouse gases.” Mr.
Cunnane pointed
out that there are also a number of local environmental concerns
emerging particularly
in East Galway in relation to incineration,
toxic dumps,
meat and bone meal and human and animal waste disposal. He stated that
in all
cases, the best practices should be promoted as the first option. He
also
pointed out that GSE has a substantial body of research from years of
campaigning and are willing to assist any local groups who are
confronted with
waste infrastructure posing a threat to people’s health and the
environment.
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WASTE INCINERATION:
A Dying Technology
by Neil Tangri, Essential Action
Resources up in Flames:
The Economic Pitfalls of Incineration versus a Zero Waste Approach in the Global South
by Brenda Platt, ILSR
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