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A zero waste pioneer, Paul Palmer launched and ran the company Zero Waste Systems in Northern California in 1974. A chemist with a PhD from Yale, Paul designed this chemical re-use service that eliminated the disposal of countless chemicals across the burgeoning Silicon Valley. He now writes and speaks on the subject of Zero Waste Theory and directs zerowasteinstitute.org.

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My onrushing heart
Most of the writings (except for Parasites Lost) revolve around the work I have done with Zero Waste. In the 1980's I ran the company I founded called Zero Waste Systems Inc. We reused all of the chemicals we could find that were unwanted because the...
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The new AI Chatbot
All of the essays and books written by Paul Palmer are Guaranteed Organic? No ingredients from Artificial Intelligence have been used.
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