History
Founded in 1974, "Waste to Wealth" became ILSR's first focus, supporting job creation, technical assistance and research and analysis of state-of-the-art methods to reduce waste and create economic development through recycling and composting.
In the 1980s, ILSR worked with Black, Latino, and White community organizations to halt a plan for six waste incineration plants in Los Angeles. With ILSR technical assistance, the Los Angeles groups then formed a working coalition among groups throughout Southern California that campaigned to have 15 additional mass burn plants cancelled between 1985 and 1988 in favor of recycling technologies.
ILSR has two main offices, one in Washington, D.C., and the other in Minneapolis, MN.
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