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What We Do

We focus on renewable energy and sustainable resource management.

Fighting Global Warming

Our current system of waste management is a significant source of greenhouse gases. More focus needs to be given to how we manage our waste streams, to minimize their impacts on an increasingly fragile environment.

Build an IWMS

We must replace the practice of landfilling municipal solid waste with an integrated waste management system (IWMS). An IWMS is built around the principles of the internationally recognized waste management hierarchy, and is an important component of a circular economy.

Protecting our Land, Water and Air

Landfills and land-applied sewage (biosolids) pose serious health risks to people and the environment. Moving toward a more sustainable system requires scientific expertise and proven technologies.

Public Education

To make informed decisions, policymakers, elected officials, and the public need reliable, unbiased information. IeRM is a source and a provider of objective information and real-world examples of successful policies and programs.

Take Action: Sign Our Petition

Tell Congress:
Pass legislation that stops landfilling of Municipal Solid and similar waste by 2030.

Untreated still reactive waste produces methane a Greenhouse Gas that according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is 80 times more damaging than CO2.
Landfills also produce a number of other harmful emissions that are also released into the atmosphere. Landfill leachate contains many forever toxics that can't be properly removed.

The true environmental and economic costs are not included in landfilling, hindering viable alternatives to be implemented.

We need to replace landfilling with an Integrated Waste Management System (IWMS).

When we stop landfilling of municipal and similar wastes we open the door to better more sustainable resource management and move towards a circular economy.

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A dead gull amongst marine plastic washed up on the beach on Walney Island, Cumbria, UK.
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