The True Value of Recycling and the Waste Stream

In the second episode of our Building Local Power podcast, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Neil Seldman, ILSR co-founder and senior staff member of the Waste to Wealth initiative about the hidden value in our waste stream and, specifically, some recent comments made by the CEO of Waste Management, Inc. disparaging the value of recycling. "The recycling movement in the United State not only has created 60,000 companies, 1 million jobs, and delivers 200 million tons of raw material a year to industry and agriculture," says Seldman. "It also produces citizen leaders and national leaders."