The United States produces almost 300 million tons of municipal solid waste per year - everything from food to furniture to packaging to electronics. Everything we throw away has to end up somewhere, and the practices and policies that govern this process have a profound effect on our natural world. As we consider ways to combat and mitigate the threat of resilient infrastructure, we will have to confront the problems in our waste management systems.This week on The Buzz, host Colin Larsen is joined by Denise Patel and Dr. Tok Oyewole from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, or GAIA, a non-profit dedicated to advancing solutions for waste and pollution and ensuring our planet’s resources are sustainably conserved.  They discuss the state of trash, bust some myths about waste-to-energy technologies, and make recommendations for how communities can create alternative systems to reduce their environmental impact.GAIA website: www.no-burn.orgBackground on municipal solid waste incinerators: https://www.no-burn.org/failing-incinerators/Building a zero-waste world: www.zerowasteworld.org/zwmpGAIA Reports:All Talk and No Recycling Resources on Chemical RecyclingTale of Five CitiesSubscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on LinkedIn or visit http://www.actiac.org.Learn more about membership at https://www.actiac.org/join.Donate to ACT-IAC at https://actiac.org/donate. Intro/Outro Music: See a Brighter Day/Gloria TellsCourtesy of Epidemic Sound(Episodes 1-159: Intro/Outro Music: Focal Point/Young CommunityCourtesy of Epidemic Sound)

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