Big Ideas: Residential Waste Reduction with Emily Gaylord of CET: Season 2 (Bonus) Episode 19
Emily Gaylord of the Center for EcoTechnology shares ways to reduce waste at home.
Emily Susan Gaylord is the Director of Communications & Relationship Development at the Center for EcoTechnology (CET). CET envisions a world that has embraced and advanced just and resilient climate solutions. By building connections across the country, Emily and her team tell the CET story, bolstering the mission to innovate, implement, and scale the environmental solutions that communities need to thrive. In this decisive decade for climate action, Emily invites you to commit to the meaningful changes that allow you to be an agent of radical impact.
Emily has been at CET for nearly a decade, and has been working in the non-profit sector since she graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a BA in Non-Profit Administration.
Emily (photo courtesy of Emily Gaylord)
Dawn and Katie speak with Emily about the many ways CET facilitates waste reduction at home, starting with food recovery.
image courtesy of the EPA
Then moving on to composting.
Even including vermicomposting and then recycling.
Emily further discusses how to reduce homebuilding material and product waste via deconstruction.
And by finding used building products, fixtures, and appliances, etc. at CET’s EcoBuilding Bargains store in Springfield, MA and online.
Give the episode a listen, and learn more at the CET website about how managing waste at home everyday and during a remodeling or new-construction project can impact your home environment and the greater environment as a whole. (Emily also recommends Project Drawdown as an additional resource for climate solutions.)
