• SOLUTIONS

  • Zero-Waste Plan Calls for Mandatory Recycling - Sustainable City Network (Lombardi) Oct. 5, 2011

  • Documentary examines potential of zero waste - Waste & Recycling News (Sept 28, 2011)

  • San Francisco: Not much trash talk over 'recycle or else' - Wildermuth (Chronical)

  • RecycleBank expands service to the Midwest - Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine  

  • Batteries Not Included - Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine  

  • Landfill Gas-to-Energy  - Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine  

  • Comprehensive Waste Management Policy in Ontario - Marueen Carter-Whitney (CIELAP)June/08   (8 mb)

  • Funding for Building Canada Plan - Infrastructure Canada, Building Canada Plan

  • Nova Scotia's Solid Waste Model - Bob Kenney, Solid Waste Resource Analyst, NS Environment   June/08   (21 mb)

  • Stop Trashing the Climate - June 5, 2008 - World Environment Day      

    •  Executive Summary of Report  (5 mb)

    •  Full Report (6 mb)

    •  Key findings and priority policies one-page handout (PDF, 160 KB)

  • Waste-to–Energy Review of Alternatives - CH2M HILL Canada Limited Consultants - May 2009

  • 70% Waste Diversion Study - Golder Associates (for Durham Region) - March 2009

  • Durham Region Clear Bag Pilot Study - VisionQuest Enviromental Strategies Corp - June 2009

      On the Road to Zero Waste: Nova Scotia
  

  • Dr. Paul Connett's January 10/07 presentation at Oshawa CAW Hall (pdf)

    • Download PowerPoint Slide Show (click "Save" option)

  • The End of Garbage - Fortune Magazine, March 2007

  • Economic instruments in the management of waste - New Zealand 

  • Nova Scotia's Vision Becomes Reality - Friesen & Murphy - MNR

    • Inroads + Impacts - Nova Scotia Resource Recovery Fund Board - 2007

    • Nova Scotia Facility Tour (Halifax stabilized landfill)

    • A less trashy Nova Scotia - Recycling - A good start (2001)

  • Zero Waste Definition and Business Principles - Zero Waste International Alliance

  • Zero Waste One Step At A time - Recycling Council of British Columbia

  • *Citizen's Agenda for Zero Waste - Connett & Sheehan

  • Getting To Zero Waste - Greenpeace

  • Incinerators are not the Answer, EPR is - John Jackson

  • INCINERATORS make waste more toxic and ... - Zero Waste America

  • Foam Alone - Recycling plant goes belly up - Now Toronto Magazine, January 2008

  • MNR Waste Management Program - Peter Forsyth

  • MNR Waste Diversion and Composting - Varangu & King

  • City of Detroit Future Solid Waste Plan - Task Force Report

  • Social and Environmental Responsibility - Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.

  • European Parliament - Major recycling operation for Europe's waste policy

  • Ontario’s Waste Management Challenge - Is Incineration an Option? - CIELAP (2007)

  • Greenhouse Gases and Waste Management Options - FOE

  • Garbage is NOT Renewable Energy - GRRN     

  • French report published on benefits of waste incineration alternatives  

  • Final Stabilized Landfill Report for Niagara/Hamilton/Toronto - March/07

  • Waterloo Landfill - Energy produced from landfill gases - Waterloo Region

  • Environmental Waste Management System - Waterloo Region 

  •  Newmarket's Waste Diversion Efforts (Oct 2007) - 78% diversion rate tops in York Region  

  • Edmonton Composting Facility - state of the art

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• More Incineration Information
  

  • Incinerators are impeding the transition to sustainability - Peter Montague  

  • Incinerators - Waste-to-Energy Proposals - Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel, November/December 2009

  • Waste-To-Energy, Part 2 - Covanta - Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel, Jan/Feb2010

  • Waste-to-Energy Part 3 - Incineration - Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel, March/April 2010

  • Competition Between Recycling and Incineration - Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D.   

  • Incinerators in Disguise - GAIA & Green Action report  

  • Plasma Arc Technology for Municipal Solid Waste: A Proven Technology or Incinerator in Disguise?
    - GAIA & Green Action report  

  • After Incineration: The Toxic Ash Problem - Petrlik & Ryder    

  • Resources up in Flames - Brenda Platt (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)

  • Ontario garbage to go up in smoke - Great Lakes United

  • 20 Reasons Why Incineration is a Losing Financial Proposition for Host Communities

  • Getting Burned - Andrew Cash (Now Magazine) 

  • Garbage In, Garbage Out - Clarissa Morawski

  • Brampton incinerator is no solution

  • Public Funds Up In Flames

  • Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology

  • Cement Kilns that Burn Hazardous Waste - Essential Action and GAIA

  • Burning Questions - (P.O.W.E.R.) Feb, 2007

  • Debunking the Myths of Incineration - Kristin D. McKinnon-Rutherford -  UPDATED 5/5/08 

  • Ramboll Energy From Waste and Client List (including York/Durham and MacViro)

  • SITA Isle of Man Waste Plan Annual Reports, including information on monitoring equipment

    • 2006 Annual Report

    • 2005/06 Annual Report

    • 2004/05 Annual Report

  • Regulatory Amendments to Facilitate Diversion, EFW, Alternative Fuels
    (Ministry of Environment)

  • March 2009 - SouthCoast towns face trash fee increase (Covanta) - New Bedford Standard-Times (Anderson)

  • No New Incinerator in Harrisburg - Close it, Keep it Closed, Clean it Up! ...one step down, two to go!

  • July 7/08 - SALE OF BELLEDUNE INCINERATOR IS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF BENNETT'S FAILURE - Environnement Vie (New Brunswick)     

  • Plasco Energy Test Project - Letter from Sierra Club to Ottawa Mayor - June 20/08 

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