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Report from the United Nations International Day of Zero Waste

May 9, 2023 As chair of the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) planning board, I got a message via ZWIA.org from the United Nations General Assembly high level committee on climate and sustainability. They requested that I come to speak as a representative of the ZWIA in New York to the UN General Assembly about climate and …

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Proceedings from the ZWIA International Dialogue

 Hosted by Alianza Zero Waste Costa Rica ZWIA International Dialogue Summary Photos from the event Sunday, December 4: Triatlón and Zero Waste Audit 6:00AM Triathlon Quepos (Marina Pez Vela) :  Annemarie Sauter, Zero Waste Costa Rica,  Pål Mårtensson, World Cleanup Day- ZWIA and Andrés Bermudez, Director Clean Wave collaborated with the Triatlon to minimize waste …

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ZWIA Joins the United Nations to Declare the International Day of Zero Waste – March 30, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:3/23/23Contact:         Richard Anthony, PresidentZero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA)858-272-2905ricanthony@aol.com The Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) is a worldwide network formed in 2003 to promote positive alternatives to landfill and incineration and to raise community awareness of the social and economic benefits to be gained when wasted materials are regarded as resources which can create both …

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World Clean Up Day, 2022

Let’s Do It World Annual Report, 2021 2019 Let’s Do It World Summary Video A goal that crosses borders and defies religious and cultural differences. World Cleanup Day is one of the biggest civic movements of our time, uniting 191 countries across the world for a cleaner planet. On that day volunteers and partners worldwide …

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Monthly Global Calls

ZWIA President Rick Anthony leads monthly calls on the third Friday of the month. The English language call is at 11am Pacific Standard Time followed by a Spanish call at 12pm PST. For call-in details, join our Announcements List.

Declaration of Zero Waste

Sign the Zero Waste Declaration

ZERO WASTE DECLARATION, Adopted by ZWIA in 10/26/20 We would like to persuade Organizations and individuals to sign on to the Declaration of Zero Waste. There are two buttons above that lead to the Zero Waste Declaration in both English and Spanish. Once you’ve read it, please feel free to sign the declaration!

Davos

Davos for me was always skate and ski record, Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, a community devoted exclusively to sickness but also a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. It took place in a sanatorium in the late 1800s when tuberculosis was at its worst.