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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...

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...

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...

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...