That is when Dan drove east through the night to come to a very special meeting in 1980. But now before we start our interview, I just wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, and I have to emphasize one, because I have many. And they’re also very deeply involved in many national and international issues concerning incineration and zero waste around the globe.ĭuring the interview, I’m going to ask them about how they got started in the anti-incineration efforts. A group of six different groups, companies, nonprofits, and government agencies that are pooling together to make Berkeley one of the best recycling cities in the world. Both Dan and Mary Lou have described what’s going on in Berkeley, which has about an 80% recycling rate as the recycling ecology of commerce. Among the ideas they introduced were the twelve category market sorting system for dealing with true source separation has now become the basis for zero waste planning.ĭan came back from Australia in the early to mid 90’s, and brought with him the concept of zero waste that has been growing leaps and bounds. They have contributed ideas, actions, and very innovative strategies that have propelled the US recycling and zero waste movement. It’s a pleasure to have Dan Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer, principals of Urban Ore, one of the pioneering recycling and reuse companies in the United States, and two pioneers of both the recycling and zero waste movement. “So we provide low-cost goods to the community that will raise the standard of living for people” We prevent pollution, and then the stuff we’ve rescued we distribute through retail sales,” says Mary Lou Van Deventer of the impact Urban Ore has on the Berkeley, California community. So that’s pollution prevention right there. “One of the secondary economic impacts of our enterprise, we salvage at the dump, so everything that we take off the transfer station floor doesn’t become landfill. In this conversation for our Building Local Power podcast, the pair join ILSR co-founder Neil Seldman and Communications Manager Nick Stumo-Langer in discussing the history of Urban Ore and their activism in the Berkeley community. That’s why they established Urban Ore and have been fighting for local reuse policies and against distant, dirty incinerators. Since the 1980s our guests Dan Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer have cared about salvaging valuable materials from the waste stream and bolstering their local Berkeley, California community. Subscribe: Stitcher | RSS The co-founders of Urban Ore, Daniel Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer.
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