Starting Your Zero Waste Journey
Looking for ways to kickstart your zero waste journey? We would like to suggest you visit Cero Tucson (https://cerotucson.com/), a zero waste store and refillary located on the westside of the city. This store allows consumers to purchase daily home and self-care products in bulk using refillable containers. Reuse and refill systems means that less […]
Transitioning to a Zero Waste Future
The City of Tucson is falling behind other cities in its efforts to transition to a zero waste future. Too much of the City’s focus has been placed on managing waste after the fact instead of reducing the amount of waste generated in the first place. In this challenging time when climate change can be seen […]
Tucson Environmental Services’ Dangerous Preoccupation with Waste-to-Energy
When Tucson Environmental Services announced in July 2021 that it wanted to create a sustainability campus at the Los Reales Landfill, we were intrigued. But the entire process fell apart quickly when we found out the department wanted to make waste-to-energy the centerpiece of the campus. We learned that the department had been holding discussions […]
Repurposing Plastic Waste into Alternative Building Products is Not Sustainable
The City of Tucson has formed a partnership with Dow Chemical, Reynolds Consumer Products and ByFusion to collect plastic waste at drop-off centers and convert the materials into alternative secondary products, such as park benches and building blocks. Some of the waste may also be sent to cement kilns and pyrolysis facilities to be burned to […]