ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Resa Dimino has worked as program director at Bronx 2000, a
community based development organization dedicated to affordable
housing, neighborhood economic development, community-based
enterprise and environmentalism. She has worked as an Environmental
Analyst for Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., and
his predecessor Fernando Ferrer. She is a member of the board
of directors of the Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN). GRRN
is a network of waste reduction activists and recycling professionals
with pragmatic experience in implementing successful programs
and operations. GRRN’s mission is to eliminate the waste
of natural and human resources -- to achieve Zero Waste -- utilizing
classic activist strategies to achieve corporate accountability
for waste as well as public policies to eliminate waste and
build sustainable communities. She co-authored and edited a
quarterly newsletter, Wastelines, and several short,
issue-specific research papers, including Paper Recycling:
Capturing the High Grades and Paved with Good Intentions:
Beyond Burning Tires, which was published in Resource
Recycling Magazine in 1994. She holds a Bachelor of Arts
from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She holds
a gubernatorial appointment to the New York State Solid Waste
Management Board. She is currently working as the Bronx River
Greenway Coordinator for the newly formed Bronx River Alliance.
Barbara Warren, Director of the New York Project at the Consumer
Policy Institute/ Consumers Union, has been involved in waste
management issues since 1980. She has worked to defeat municipal
waste incinerators locally and nationally and to close the Fresh
Kills landfill. She also worked on the Recycle First Alternative
Plan. She has served on the Citywide Recycling Advisory Board
and she was appointed by Mayor Giuliani to the Fresh Kills Closure
Task Force. In 1996 she helped establish the Organization of
Waterfront Neighborhoods (OWN) and authored Taking Out The
Trash: A New Direction for New York City’s Waste. She
continues to work with OWN as a technical advisor. She received
her MS degree in Environmental Health Science from Hunter College
and has received numerous environmental awards
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