Joseph Edward “Jed” Alegado, MA, MPM, Silliman University visiting researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in the Resource, Environment and Development Group at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU), stressed the importance of finding imperatives for a zero-waste future through community cases of zero-waste initiatives instead of waste-to-energy solutions (e.g., pyrolysis machines) in his lecture at the Dr. Mariano and Lina Lao Hall on January 24.