Go Back In your recently published book, How to Avoid A Climate Disaster, you state that ‘Humans need to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.’ While this is more than obvious, we wonder if you feel that the admonition also applies to you. We wonder this because, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, you are the top investor in Republic Services, a waste collection company and landfill operator; and the Gates Foundation’s second largest holding is $2.12 billion in Waste Management, a waste collection company and landfill operator. We’re seeing a trend here, and it’s not a good one. Landfills are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. According to the USEPA,landfills are the least desirable means of waste disposal because of their methane emissions. Since your Foundation has offices inseveral European cities, we’re sure that you are aware that the European Union has voted to phase out landfilling completely, and infact several countries have already done so, with significant reductions in greenhouse gases as a result. So tell us, please, Mr.Gates. Why ‘invest’ in landfills? Millions of concerned citizens want to know. Sincerely yours, The Institute for Energy and Resource Management Institute of energy management

The waste management advocate said the decision to expand seems pre-determined despite assessment. By Cameron Sheppard Published Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Waste management experts from the non-profit Institute for Energy and Resource Management are calling King County’s assessment of the Cedar Hills Landfill a “boondoggle,” and a waste of time and money in

Go Back Understanding waste-to-energy’s financial and environmental impact in King County. By Cameron Sheppard King County officials are proposing and exploring more sustainable alternatives to the massive Cedar Hills Landfill, including the burning of waste through waste-to-energy systems. Questions and concerns have been raised regarding some of the potential externalities WTE could have

Go Back As sea levels rise, the landfills along the US coasts have become a ticking environmental time bomb. So why does the federal government have no plan to avoid this looming catastrophe? By Dave Lindorff,  July 26, 2021 Fae Saulenas knows that before long she’ll have to abandon the place

Go Back There is now so much ocean plastic that it has become a route for invasive species, threatening native animals with extinction Japan’s 2011 tsunami was catastrophic, killing nearly 16,000 people, destroying homes and infrastructure, and sweeping an estimated 5m tons of debris out to sea. That debris did