The National Recycling Coalition

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Grassroonts Recycling NetworkNational Recycling
and Zero Waste ConferenceDevens Massachusetts
October 2009

• Lies, Damnable Lies
• and Landfills

• by Peter Anderson, Executive Director
• Center for a Competitive Waste Industry

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A tale of two futures
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Where do compostables belong

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Greenwashing
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Greenwashing
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Ignored

• Most Uncontrolled. More than 3/4th of the gases
  produced or mobilized in a landfill are, over
  its life, released uncontrolled into the
  atmosphere
• Source of methane. There would not be substantial
  volumes of uncontrolled methane produced from
  garbage were we to discontinue disposing of our
  organic discards deep in lined landfills

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and reducing methane is vital to avoid crossing
irreversible tipping points

• Feasible reversal of the growth of methane
  would provide a vital contribution toward
  averting dangerous anthropogenic interference
  with global climate...Methane deserves special
  attention in efforts to stem global
  warming...Given the difficulty of halting
  near-term CO2 growth, the only practical way to
  avoid dangerous interference with climate may
  be simultaneous efforts to reverse the growth of
  methane.
• -James Hansen Greenhouse gas growth
  rates, Nov 16 06 PNAS

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A tale of two landfills
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Landfills true impact on greenhouse gases
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The other future is to stop burying organics

• European Commission 1999 Landfill Directive
• Waste and treatment not acceptable in
  landfills.
• 1. Member States shall set up a
  national strategy for the implementation of the
  reduction of biodegradable waste going to
  landfills not later than 15 years after the date
  laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable
  municipal waste going to landfills must be
  reduced to 35 of the total amount (by weight)
  of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995
  or the latest year

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and, in North America,124 Cities
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• California (42)
• Alameda (City of)
• Albany
• Arvin
• Berkeley
• Beverly Hills
• Castro Valley
• Cloverdale
• Cotati
• Danville (Pilot)
• Dixon
• Dublin
• Emeryville
• Fremont

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• Hayward
• Healdsburg
• Livermore
• McFarland
• Modesto
• Morgan Hill
• Newark
• North Hollywood
• Oakland
• Oro Loma Sanitary District
• Petaluma
• Pleasanton
• Portola Valley
• Rohnert Park

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• San Fernando
• San Francisco
• San Juan Bautista
• San Leandro
• San Lorenzo
• Santa Rosa
• Sebastopol
• Sonoma (City)
• Sonoma County
• Stockton
• Union City
• Walnut Creek
• Windsor
• Woodside

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• Midwest (4)
• Ann Arbor, MI
• Carver County, MN
• Cedar Rapids, IA
• Dubuque, IA
• Hutchinson, MN
• Linn County, IA
• Wayzata, MN
• Northeast (5)
• Cambridge, MA
• Central VT Waste Mgt. District
• Greensboro, VT
• Lewistown, ME
• Northeast Kingdom, VT

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• South (1)
• Plano, TX
• Sarasota, FL
• Washington (12)
• Bellevue, WA
• Bellingham, WA
• Bothell, WA
• Carnation, WA
• Issaquah, WA
• King County, WA
• Kirkland, WA
• Newcastle, WA
• Redmond, WA
• Sammamish, WA

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• Seattle, WA
• Woodinville, WA
• British Columbia (1)
• Mission
• New Brunswick (2)
• Moncton
• Fredericton
• Nova Scotia (41)
• Annapolis County
• Annapolis Royal
• Antigonish
• Argyle
• Baddeck
• Barrington

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• Berwick
• Bridgetown
• Bridgewater
• Cape Breton
• Chester District
• Clare
• Colchester County
• Cumberland Co.
• Digby
• Greenwood
• Halifax Regional
• Hants Co.
• Inverness Co.
• Kentville

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• Kings County
• Lawrencetown
• Lunenburg
• Mahone Bay
• New Glasgow
• New Minas
• Parrsboro
• Pictou Co.
• Port Hawkesbury
• Queens County
• Richmond County
• River John
• Shelburne
• Town of Amherst

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• Town of Berwick
• Town of Oxford
• Trenton
• Victoria County
• Windsor
• Wolfville
• Yarmouth
• Ontario (8)
• Bracebridge
• Caledon
• Guelph
• Kingston
• Markham
• Niagara Region

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• St. Thomas
• Toronto
• Quebec (3)
• Regie Argenteuil
• Chertsey
• Laval

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Carpe diem
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Contact Information

• Peter Anderson
• Center for a Competitive Waste Industry
• 313 Price Place Suite 14
• Madison, WI 53705-4964
• [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Cell [phone]
• Toll Free [phone]
• anderson_at_competitivewaste.org