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  Municipal Solid Waste

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Country Regulations and Statistics

• Australia
• Waste Minimisation and Management Act
• Waste Workbook a report on waste management in Australia.
• A Draft Waste Management Strategy for Canberra - No Waste by 2010
• Austria
• Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz
• Waste statistics
• Information about monograph on waste management in Austria
• Belgium
• Public Waste Agency of Flanders
• Canada
• Overview and links to the municipal solid waste regulations
• Czech Republic
• Waste Management Act (WordPerfect file), and other waste related regulations
• Czech Environmental Year-Book 1993/94, Chapter 4 - Waste, statistics for 1995 in Czech only.
• Detailed information about waste management and recycling from the Recycling Group Prague - in Czech only.
• Denmark
• Nature and Environment Policy 1995. Summary Report Chapter 5: Waste management
• Waste and recycling - information of the Ministry of Environment and Energy
• Waste Management in Denmark by World Resource Foundation
• Estonia
• Waste management
• Germany
• Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz    Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act
• Gesetz über die Vermeidung und Entsorgung von Abfällen (Abfallgesetz)
• Verordnung über die Vermeidung von Verpackungsabfällen (Verpackungsverordnung)
• Waste management statistics from the Ministry for the Environment
• Waste Management Case Study: Germany, by Siegbert Schneider, Ministry for the Environment
• Report to the OECD on "Collection and Recycling Process of Waste Disposal"
• Information on solid waste management and packaging law
• India
• Solid waste management in India , by Arun P. Jain. A conference paper of the Water, Engineering and Development Centre at Loughborough University, UK
• Ireland
• Information on the proposed Waste Management Act
• Irish and EC Legislation Relating to Waste
• Italy
• The Italian waste management industry - an article from the Warmer Bulletin
• Japan
• Report to the OECD on Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law
• Waste Management in Japan by World Resource Foundation
• Municipal Waste Observations, Japan
• Latvia
• Waste statistics ('94)
• Lithuania
• Waste inventory and management
• The Netherlands
• Afval Overleg Orgaan Homepage
• A comparison between waste management practices in the Netherlands and Finland
• Waste management statistics
• Norway
• Waste regulations - English translation can be ordered on-line from the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority
• Poland
• ...soon
• Sweden
• "50% less waste to the landfills within ten years" - press release of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
• Report to the OECD on packaging law
• Information on Integrated Solid Waste Management from the Chalmers University of Technology
• Ukraine
• Waste generation and management
• United Kingdom
• An overview of draft national waste management strategy by World Resource Foundation
• Industry progress on implementing producer responsibility for packaging waste - press release of the Department of Environment
• United States of America
• Overview and links to the municipal solid waste regulations
• Federal Register - Waste
• US EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Non-Hazardous Waste - RCRA Subtitle D
• Municipal Solid Waste Characterization Report (1995)
• Municipal Solid Waste Factbook

General Information

 

• Article on EC Packaging Law

 

• The Effectiveness of Taxes in Reducing Waste

 

• Information about waste in Central and Eastern European countries from our report on waste incineration

 

• Progress Report on implementation of the European Community Programme of Policy and Action in relation to the environment and sustainable development "towards sustainability" - Chapter 2. The Themes and Targets of The Programme: Waste Management

 

• Short information on waste and packaging regulations in various countries

Composting

• Information on anareobic digestion process, and research at Technical University of Denmark.

 

• The Compost Resource Page - from poems(!) to technical information.
• Composting Course of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

 

• Composting Handbook of the New Brunswick Department of the Environment.

 

• Composting of Human Manure, and an example of composting toalet from NATURE-LOO

 

• Composting process research at University Potsdam, Germany

 

• The Cornell University has very good Composting Website

 

• Department of Waste Management, University of Essen put on its site interesting technical documents on composting process, in German and English.

 

• European Survey of Organic Waste Treatment

 

• Rot Web Home Composting Information Site

 

• Short guides on Recycling Urban and Agricultural Organic Waste, and Backyard Composting from the College of Agriculture and Home Economics of the New Mexico State University.

 

• The Sobacken Project - first Swedish full-scale anaerobic digestion facility for household waste.

 

• Sustainable Building Sourcebook - Compost System

 

• Urban Home Composting from the City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes

 

• The ~Worm~ Digest - all you should know about these sympathic animals...

 

Mailing Lists

 

• COMPOST
• To join this mailing list send command to listproc@listproc.wsu.edu: subscribe compost your name
• COMPOSTING
• To join this mailing list send command to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk: join composting your name
• Mailing list archive

Recycling

• A Handbook for Developing a Rural Recycling Program

 

• Alternatives BBS: Recycling - an archive of documents and news on recycling.

 

• A Guide to Alternatives for Waste Management from the Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS)

 

• Article on Durable Goods Recycling

 

• Environmental Defense Fund reports
• Advantage Recycle. Assessing the Full Costs and Benefits of Curbside Recycling
• Anti-Recycling Myths and Recycling isn't Garbage
• The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

 

• Recycling Course of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

 

• Recycling Factoids

 

• Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling Program of the Center for Neighborhood Technology

 

• Waste rubber recycling, by Rehan Ahmed and Arnold van de Klundert. A conference paper of the Water, Engineering and Development Centre at Loughborough University, UK

 

Bulletins and Newsletters

 

• European Recycling

 

• Recycling Canada - fee based

 

• Recycling Insights

 

• Recycling Laws International

 

• The US EPA's Reusable News

 

• Science and the Environment - Waste Management and Recycling

 

• Waste Age Publications

 

• The Yale University Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy

 

Recycling Market and Directories

 

• Environmental Organization WebDirectory - Recycling

 

• Global Recycling Network

 

• Recycling Council of Ontario's Waste Less Trade Show

 

• Recyclers-Info Germany

 

• Recycler's World

 

• Swedish Recycling Business Guide

 

• WasteWeb (UK)

 

• Yahoo's Recycling Directory

 

Mailing Lists

 

• Envirolink Recycle Mailing List Archive

 

• AUTORECY - Automotive Recycling
• To join this mailing list send command to listserv@pdomain.uwindsor.ca: sub autorecy your name
• Mailing list archive
• RECYCLE - Recycling in Practice
• To join this mailing list send command to listserv@umab.bitnet: subscribe recycle your name
• WASTENET - Waste Management List
• To join this mailing list send command to listserv@msu.edu: subscribe wastenet your name

Landfills

• The Basics of Landfills from the Environmental Research Foundation

 

• The Landfill Group of Luleå University, Sweden.

 

• Landfills Course of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

 

• Technical information briefs on landfill techniques and mining from the World Resource Foundation

 

• The US EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program
• Using Landfill Gas for Energy: Projects that Pay
• US EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD):
• Estimate of Global Methane Emissions from Landfills and Open Dumps (pdf file, 14kb)
• Landfill Gas Energy Utilization Experience: Discussion of Technical and Non-Technical Issues, Solutions, and Trends (pdf file, 19kb)
• Leachate Clogging Assessment of Geotextile and Soil Landfill Filters (pdf file, 76kb)

Packaging

Glass

 

• Glass Packaging Institute

 

• Glass Works - information on glass recycling system in Canada.

 

Plastics

 

• Additives to Plastics - a chapter of the book "An Introduction to Plastics" from the Plastics Technology Center

 

• Plastics vs. the Environment from the Envirolink

 

Bulletins and Newsletters

 

• Environmental Packaging

 

• Packaging Intelligence Network

 

• Talk Packaging a Hewlett-Packard's bulletin-board, and very informative Guideline for Environmentally Responsible Packaging