Posted Documents

• Texas Instruments Waste Management White Paper

• Effectiveness & Efficiency fund multi-residential recycling systems improvements (PDF 2.35MB)

August/September 2007: Related Reports and Articles

• Guelph wins court case in Subbor matter (PDF 2,604KB)

Waste-to-Energy (Incineration) Cover Story, April/May edition

• Garbage In, Garbage Out (PDF 299KB)

December/January 2007: Related Reports and Articles

• Environmental Economics Environmental Economics of Discards (PDF 204KB)

June/July 2006: Related Reports and Articles

• French Rabbit Sales (Excel spreadsheet 21KB)

• LCBO Letter - Alternative Packaging (PDF 58KB)

• Ontario Tetra Pak Facilities (PDF 25KB)

• LCBO 2005 Operational Review - Deloitte & Touche LLP (PDF 5MB)

• Consumers Association vs. Pacific-Encorp decision (PDF 2MB)

• Coalition Letter - Re: An Act to Amend the Clean Environment Act (PDF 64KB)

• Bill 15 - An Act to Amend the Clean Environment Act (PDF 90KB)

February/March 2006: Related Reports and Articles

• Stewardship Ontario Letter (PDF 37KB)
• Stewardship Ontario - Key Facts on Glass Recycling in Ontario (PDF 50KB)
• Unical Letter (PDF 378KB)
• Bill 15 Coalition Letter to Minister Holder (PDF 64KB)
• Bill 15 An act to amend the Clean Environment Act (PDF 90KB)
• OI Comments on Blue Box Funding Review (PDF 138KB)

January 2006: Related Reports and Articles

• Kelleher IC&I Report to the Ministry of the Environment (PDF 212KB)

December/January 2005: Related Reports and Articles

• AMO's Proposal for a Provincial Integrated Waste Strategy (PDF 780KB)

• Editorial: When Wal-Mart Embraces Nature, Questions Arise (Powerpoint 736KB)

• ARMA Update
  Alberta's Electronics Recycling Program - Processor Status Report (PDF 39KB)
  Stantec - Waste Electronics Incentive Program for Collectors and Processors (PDF 236KB)

• Final Speakers Corner results (border closing issues) (PDF 118KB)

October/November 2005:  Related Reports and Articles

• Final Draft Comparative Emissions Study (PDF 842KB)

• A critical review of the Used Oil Management Association (UOMA) Program Review
  This document accompanies the Product Stewardship article by Usman Valiante entitled
  "Smear Campaign" (pages 26-27) Download the article in PDF format (331KB)

August/September 2005:  Related Reports and Articles

• CERB Report Card on Ontario's Blue Box (PDF 900KB)

• ARMA Alarm: Letter and Editor's Comment
  Used-oil cartel, Financial Post article (PDF 17.6KB)
  Does not compute, Western Standard article (PDF 27KB)
  Letter: Proposed Scrap Tire Diversion Program Plan (PDF Format 25KB)
  Watchdog attacks recycling fees (PDF Format 16KB)
  Evaluation Tool for EPR Programs (PDF format 295KB)
   

• Editorial: The Fall of the House of Ashcroft
  BC Municipal Solid Waste Tracking Report 2000 (PDF Format 1MB)

June/July 2005: Related Reports and Articles

• Unintended Consequences:
  Municipal Solid Waste Management and the Throwaway Society
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (253KB)

April/May 2005: Related Reports and Articles

• ICI Private Sector Waste Study
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (739KB)

February/March 2005: Related Reports and Articles

• Blue Box Efficiency Study
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (90KB)

December/January 2005: Related Reports and Articles

• Commodities Corner
  Click here to download the Single Stream Collection Report in PDF format (141KB)

October/November 2004: Related Reports and Articles

• An Overview of Plastic Bottle Recycling in Canada
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (192KB)

• British Columbia Recycling Regulation
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (1.5MB)

• Ontario Tire Stewardship Plan
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (2MB)

• WDO Evaluation of Draft Scrap Tire Plan
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (41KB)

• Tire Collectors Letter to Ministry
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (240KB)

August/September 2004: Related Reports and Articles

• The Feasibility of Landfill Prohibitions as a Regulatory Rule
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (594KB)

June/July 2004: Related Reports and Articles

• Ontario's 60% Waste Diversion Goal - A Discussion Paper
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (514KB)

• Cheques totalling $6.7 million will be mailed to "Blue Box" Program municipalities
  Click here to download the article in PDF format (147KB)

April/May 2004: Related Reports and Articles

• Toronto Waste Diversion Report
  Click here to download the Word document (3.7MB)

• Appeal Court releases final decision in Waxman vs. Waxman
  Click here to download the full PDF document (1.4MB)

• Used Oil Study - Draft Version
  Click here to download the Word document (165KB)

• Facts about Canada's used oil materials recycling programs
  Click here to download the Word document (42KB)

• Lubricating Public Policy
  Click here to down the article as a Word document (33KB)

• Dairy Industry Product Stewardship Proposal
  Click here to download the report in PDF format (54KB)

• Greater Toronto Area Working Group Assessment of New and Emerging Technologies for the Processing of Post-Diversion Residual Wastes (See Waste Business Watch column by John Nicholson)
  Click here to download the report in PDF format (1842KB)
• Who Does What Report for Clarissa Morawski's article
  (for Clarissa Morawski's article)
  Click here to download the full report in PDF format (561KB)
  Click here to view the report Appendix in PDF format (175KB)

• Canadian Plastics Industry Association study on plastic railway ties
  www.cpia.ca
• Reduce, Reuse, Refill! study 
  www.grrn.org/beverage/refillables/index.html
  Refillables report in PDF format
• Liberal Ontario Government's environmental platform
  www.ontarioelectionenivronment.com
• Ontario Conservation Council's strategy paper
  www.greenontario.org

• Renaissance ROM web cam
  www.rom.on.ca/renaissance/hyatt.php
• Sherbrooke gasification pilot results
  www.cpia.ca/ScriptContent/index.cfm
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities e-waste report
  www.fcm.ca
• Knowledge of the Environment for Youth information
  www.key.ca/resources/key_resources.php
• City of Toronto waste strategy
  www.city.toronto.on.ca/wes/techservices/involved/swm/net/techs.htm
• EcoAction Community Funding program
  www.ec.gc.ca/ecoaction/index_e.htm
• B.C.'s ASI Environmental Futures Fund guidelines
  www.asi.bc.ca/pdfs/EFF_Final.pdf

• New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund Award List 
  www.gnb.ca/0009/0373/0004/

• Statistics Canada Waste Management Industry Survey: Business and Government Sectors 2000
  www.statcan.ca/english/IPS/Data/16F0023XIE.htm

• Recycling in Nova Scotia survey results
  www.rrfb.com

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• Stewardship Ontario
  www.stewardshipontario.org
• Federal funds for clean technologies
  www.sdtc.ca

• Environment Canada E-zine re: tech recycling
  www.ec.gc.ca/EnviroZine/english/issues/01/print_version_e.cfm?page=feature3

• Environment Canada 2000 it waste study by EnvirosRIS
  www.ec.gc.ca/nopp/sustainable/itwaste/indexE.cfm

• The Information Technology Association of Canada
  www.itac.ca

• Hewlett Packard program
  www.hp.ca/recycle

• The U.S. Computer TakeBack Campaign
  www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/electron/crt.htm

August/September 2002: Related Reports and Articles

• Waxman decision
• Sewage sludge controversy reports
  BMC Public Health "Interaction of Pathogens and Irritant Chemicals in Land-Applied Sewage Slusdges (Biosolids)"
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/2/11
• Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Report "Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices" Brief summary
  (http://dels.nas.edu/best/Biosolids.pdf) and the entire report (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/biosolids/nas/complete.pdf)
• Deadly Sludge: Pennsylvania's Silent Killer?
  http://www.umwa.org/journal/VOL113NO2/mar2.shtml
  For more information regarding Tony Behun's death and the UMWA: http://PA_Sludge.tripod.com/SludgeVictims/SV-166_PA.html
• Waste Diversion Ontario 
  http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/news/2002/061401fs.htm

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June/July 2002: Related Reports and Articles

• Beverage Container Diversion -- "An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Beverage Container Recovery in Canada" by Clarissa Morawski of CM Consulting (See "Who Pays What" in the April/May edition.)
  Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Beverage Container Recovery in Canada
• Container Recycling Institute and Bottle Bill Report
  www.container-recycling.org
  www.bottlebill.info
• StatsCan Waste Management Industry Report: government and business sectors
  http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/020425/d020425b.htm
  For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact the information officer (613-951-0297; environ@statscan.ca), Environment Accounts and Statistics Division
• Walkerton Drinking Water Reports
  http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/html/CAD/walkertonrpt2.htm

April/May 2002: Related Reports and Articles

• Health Alert -- letter and report by Dr. A. Hukowich re Enid Lipsett's sewage sludge complaint. (See "Sludge Fight" in the December/January edition.)
• Beverage Container Diversion -- "An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Beverage Container Recovery in Canada" by Clarissa Morawski of CM Consulting (See "Who Pays What" in the April/May edition.)
  Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Beverage Container Recovery in Canada
• B.C.'s organics recycling regulation
  http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/epd/epdpa/mpp/omrreg.html

February/March 2002:  Related Reports and Articles

• Diversion: Dynamic beverage container recovery data
  http://www.globalgreen.org/BEAR

December 2001/January 2002:  Related Reports and Articles

• Save on Foods -- Changes Recycling Centres
  http://www.changesrecyclingcentre.com/
• The Sphinx's Riddle -- Dr. Fred Singer
  http://www.heatisonline.org/hiol/fabricated.cfm
  http://www.sepp.org/
• Corporations Supporting Recycling
  www.csr.org
• U.S. recycling report
  http://www.nrc-recycle.org/

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October 2001:  Related Reports and Articles

• Integrated Waste Management tool www.iwm-model.uwaterloo.ca
• The Shinx's Riddle www.grahamhancock.com
• Ontario Federation of Agriculture survey Provfeds@ofa.on.ca
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development manual -- Extended Producer Responsibility www.sourceoecd.org
• Toronto's Task Force 2010 Waste Diversion Report www.city.toronto.on.ca/taskforce201/ Email: taskforce2010@city.toronto.on.ca
• TDG regulations www.tc.gc.ca/tdg/menu.htm

August/September 2001:  Related Reports and Articles

• Cover story: IWM Model: www.plastics.ca/epic
• Albert scrap tire projects: www.trma.com
• New B.C. environment ministry: www.env.gov.bc.ca

June/July 2001:  Related Reports and Articles

• Integrated waste management model: for updates, see www.plastics.ca/epic or e-mail mfranner@cpia.ca
• Alberta milk jug recycling: www.milkjugrecycling.com
• Carts & Containers -- Midpoint: www.midpoint-int.com
• Waste Expo: www.iwceconexpo.com or e-mail trade_shows@intertec.com
• Coca-Cola recycling resolution: www.waldenassetmanagement.com

April/May 2001:  Related Reports and Articles

• Breaking News on Green Glass Market

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February/March 2001:  Related Reports and Articles

• County of Dufferin Composting Pilot Program Progress Repor
  (final report still in progress -- contact Melissa Kovacs at tel 519-942-8882)

October/November 2000: Related Reports and Articles

• Sewage Sludge Treatment Study

February/March 2000: Related Reports and Articles

• Toronto releases RFP

April/May 1998: Related Reports and Articles

Source Reduction, An analysis of soft-drink packaging in Canada, by Professor Michael J. Hare (from page 22) End Notes

February/March 1998: Related Reports and Articles

For information on Usman Valiante's LCBO article please contact him at his e-mail address, valiante@ican.net