Congratulations Greenpeace Argentina!

This just in from our inspired and inspiring friends at Greenpeace Argentina. Congratulations to an another amazing victory! Hasta la victoria, siempre!

"My dear "mobilizing" friends,

This is another "mobilizing" news, and I hope you can share our happiness with us. After 15 months of hard work, using mobiles for pressing local legislators, with calls and text messages, we WON the "Zero Waste" campaign in Buenos Aires. 

More than 4.500 "movilactivistas" (mobileactivists) of Greenpeace Argentina has participated in this campaign. And the SMS database is still growing!!!! Buenos Aires (3 million in habitants) will reduce by 50% the urban waste sent to landfills in 2010, 75% in 2015 and "100% in 2020". Moreover, the law passed by the city council establishes that "incineration" of urban waste is "banned".

This is a big step for us and we can't hide our happiness for this achievement. In this way, Buenos Aires has become the most populated city to implement a Zero Waste policy, the first Latin American city to have such a legislation. Thanks to this new legislation, Buenos Aires will:

A good balance of environmental and social progress! Wow! What a year for Greenpeace Argentina! Again, many thanks for your inspirative work, for your brilliant advices, for share your technical and editorial experience and for your solidarity.  Gracias de verdad por poner su profesionalismo al servicio de un mundo mejor!!! Un abrazo!