[3] In the 1980s, ILSR worked with community organizations to halt a plan for six waste incineration plants in Los Angeles.

With ILSR's assistance, the Los Angeles groups then formed a coalition throughout Southern California that campaigned to have 15 additional mass burn plants cancelled between 1985 and 1988 in favor of recycling technologies.

[5] In April 2008, ILSR's Healthy Building Network (HBN) program was spun off as an independent nonprofit organization.

[6] In August 2019, ILSR's Brenda Platt and Neil Seldman were profiled in Biocycle Magazine about their history of work on zero waste and community-scaled composting.

[7] In February 2020, ILSR Co-director Stacy Mitchell appeared in PBS Frontline's documentary, Amazon: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos.