2024 Solid Waste Survey

Please Sign This Petition

Dear friend,

After another year of record-breaking weather disasters, it’s clear that the Earth’s climate is changing. Even more concerning is the scientific community’s consensus that these dangerous and potentially irreversible changes are accelerating.

Experts agree: our current solid waste disposal practices are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas – a source that is poorly regulated and often ignored. The same applies to the many thousands of chemicals and substances that pollute our air, soil and water via landfills and given the urgency of the situation, we cannot allow the status quo to continue. There is a better way. You can help.

IeRM has developed an Integrated Waste Management System to replace the outdated and dangerous practice of landfilling. An IWMS, based on best practices in Europe, will enable value added recycling, recover precious resources, and significantly reduce methane and other toxic emissions and leachate. To that end, please consider signing our petition, which calls for a fundamental change in our solid waste management practices. Once completed, we will present the petition to Governors and Legislatures, along with offers of assistance in designing and implementing the new system.

If we all work together, we can greatly improve our solid waste management and help save the planet. Thank you in advance for your time, your honesty, and your generosity.

Petition

Whereas, landfills are a major source of methane as well as other dangerous and toxicemissions and leachate; and

Whereas, the practice of landfilling discourages the recycling of valuable materials and wastes precious resources; and

Whereas, when the true costs of landfilling are included, it is the most expensive means of disposing of municipal solid waste; and

Whereas, an Integrated Waste Management System, based on best practices in Europe, is a cleaner, cheaper, and more effective way to manage solid waste; and

Whereas, an Integrated Waste Management System encourages the substitution of reusable materials and promotes recycling rates in excess of transparent and tangible sixty percent;

Now, therefore, we the undersigned demand that landfilling as a waste management practice be banned except for inert and mineralized materialsthat no longer negatively impact the environment; and

That an Integrated Waste Management System be adopted as the means of managing municipal solid waste to protect us and future generations form the detrimental environmental impacts and costs.