Nic Esposito

Zero Waste & Litter Cabinet released its two-year report today The City released its 2019 Zero Waste & Litter Report, two years after the cabinet shared its roadmap. In its report released today, the Cabinet boasts that of 31 recommendations...

How does a city get to Zero Waste? According to the Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet, it starts with One… Year Report. Philadelphia has an ambitious goal: to fully eliminate the use of landfills and conventional incinerators by 2035, diverting...

How does Philadelphia tackle litter problems? We talk with Philadelphia’s Zero Waste and Litter Director, Nic Esposito, to discuss Philly’s litter problem, zero waste, recycling problems, our disposable culture and more in this episode of City Rising. Tune in to...

Step one of fighting trash: Knowing where it is. Yesterday, the City of Philadelphia’s Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet revealed a city-wide Litter Index, an indexed map of litter conditions on city streets, vacant lots, and other public properties. Philadelphia Litter Index...

Mayor Kenney, Philadelphia Streets Department, and Recyclebank announced Philacycle, the newest program to get the city to Zero Waste. Philacycle: Helping Philadelphia to Get to Zero Waste Philacycle replaces the previous city programs by combining them all into one: Philadelphia Recycling...

With a long history of being dirty, Philly admits that we have work to do to be considered a “sustainable city.” Since 1960, the amount of municipal solid waste has nearly tripled, and only 89 million tons of waste is recycled...

It’s no secret Philly has had a dirty reputation. If you start googling “Why is Philly…”, here’s what automatically comes up: But we’ve made a lot of progress since Greenworks began in 2008. And have more in store. Philadelphia has big...

Kindling catches on to build a fire, eh? We’ve all been there – making an effort to bike in this 30* weather or summer 90 degrees for the sake of sustainability. Let’s start celebrating those recycling hoarding moments to all...

When I first started the Head & The Hand Press in 2012, Editorial Director Linda Gallant and I knew that before we were to work on a novel, we needed to establish some cred in the publishing world. As it...