ZWA

Zero Waste America (ZWA) is a Internet-based environmental research organization specializing in the field of Zero Waste. We provide (through our website, primarily), information on associated legislative, legal, technical, environmental, health, and consumer issues.

We also specialize in information on U.S. waste disposal issues, particularly the lack a federal 'waste management' plan, the use of 'disposal bans' to legally stop waste disposal and imports, the long-proposed federal Interstate Waste legislation, waste data collection methodology, and applicable federal case law. ZWA is an authority on the regulatory enforcement of the State Plan (waste management) provisions of The Solid Waste Disposal Act (otherwise known as The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - RCRA).

ZWA is non-profit and unconventional. We accept no money. ZWA has no membership, regular meetings, or conventional office holding. ZWA is not associated with any business or government.

Lynn is the main chef in this kitchen, but she gets help from people from all over the world who work on Zero Waste and related matters. Special thanks goes to Joe Turner of the Raymond Proffitt Foundation, Larry Ladd, Anthony Mitchell, Dr. Paul and Ellen Connett, Dr.Peter Montegue, Dr. Fred Lee, Dr. John Hirzy, Dr. Bob Carton, and Darlene Sherrell.

Lynn's background

Lynn Landes is the publisher of EcoTalk.org and a news reporter for DUTV in Philadelphia, PA. Lynn is also a freelance journalist who specializes in politics, the environment, and health. She is one of the nation's leading journalists on voting technology issues. Lynn is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the founder of Zero Waste America, an Internet-based environmental research organization. She started her weekly column, Lynn Investigates, in July 2002. The previous year she produced and hosted daily environmental news spots, "Update on the Environment," for DUTV. Lynn hosted her own radio talk show It's Your Environment, on WDVR in New Jersey, from 1999-2002, and was a weekly commentator from May 2001- August 2002 for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio program, Up All Night. She has been featured in a series of interviews on environment and health issues on WebMD, and is frequently interviewed by TV, radio, and print news media. Her 1998 report, State of the Nation’s Waste, was reported throughout the U.S., and German Public Radio broadcast a lengthy interview of Lynn that same year. Her 1997 article, River of Waste, is the lead article in a compilation of articles for high school students called Pollution: Opposing Viewpoints Series by Greenhaven Press. Lynn has been engaged in civic and political activities since 1982. She graduated from Temple University in 1976 with a BA in Political Science. Lynn and her husband live in center city Philadelphia. They have three grown children.

Resume:

She started her weekly column, Eye On The Environment, in July 2002

Host of "Update on the Environment," a 2-minute news spot for Drexel University Cable TV DUTV (scripts) in Philadelphia, Jan 2002-Sept 2002

News commentator for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio program, Up All Night , May 2001-Aug 2001

Host of It's Your Environment radio & Internet show, 1999-2002

Founded Zero Waste America (ZWA) in 1996

Raymond Proffitt Foundation, vice-president, 1996-1999

Pennsylvania's Dept. of Environmental Protection, Solid Waste Advisory Committee, 1995-96

Solid Waste Chair for Pennsylvania Sierra Club, 1995-96

Active in environmental issues since 1990

BA, Political Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1976

Lynn Ehlinger - maiden name