How you can get involved

LOCAL Government (incineration related)

• Durham Region Council - contact info
  • Durham Region - Minutes/Agendas
  • Durham Region Waste Management
  • Durham York Waste EA (Consultant's site for EFW)
  • Report - Consultant's Recommended Site for EFW (Courtice)
  • Durham/York Residual Waste Study (Proponents of EFW)
  • Ramboll Client List (Regions of Durham and York/MacViro & sizing)
  • Ramboll Waste to Energy
• Clarington Council - contact info - or contact page
  • Clarington - Meetings, Minutes, Reports, Agendas
• Durham Region Waste Management Program

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LOCAL (Durham area Groups , Issues and Blogs)

• Draft Green Community Strategy - Clarington
• Durham Environment Watch on Facebook 
• CAW Durham Regional Environment Council
• Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC)
• Friends of the Farewell - Courtice, ON
• Stop The Stink - Pickering (Odor Control Facility) and the Big Pipe
• Envirosponsible - Whitby, ON - making environmentally responsible living attainable

• Thriftopia - Barrie, ON

• Clarington Watchdog - blog critical of Clarington and Durham politics
• Durham Region Election Blogs - NewsDurhamRegion.com blog pages
• Simply Put - NewsDurhamRegion.com blog  (featuring Marven Whidden & "Genny")   New
• Voices of Ajax - blog
• Your Earth - Suzanne Elston's blog (now closed, but archives still available)
• Take Back Oshawa's Waterfront - Facebook Group     
• The Mayor's Blog - Mayor John Gray, Oshawa

ONTARIO & Canada

• Do What You Can - Ontario - Find places to drop-off household hazardous and special wastes and unwanted electronics that can’t be put in your Blue Box and should not go in the garbage. You can search for places by municipality, postal code or material.

• Ontario Environmental Directory - environmental groups, organizations, agencies
  and websites across Ontario, Canada

• Prevent Cancer Now - Sign the PCN position statement on Incineration

• Zero Waste Vancouver - Metro Vancouver is about to commit $3 billion dollars1 to operate as many as six garbage incinerators in their region. That’s one within view of just about everybody’s backyard.

• Zero Waste Blog - Citizens taking action ~ Vancouver, Lower Mainland, and beyond.

• Protect Christina Lake - The Aquilini Group of Vancouver has applied to build a toxic waste gasification plant at pristine Christina Lake.

• Solid Waste & Recycling Blog - Guy Crittenden's commentary on issues related to every aspect of waste management in Canada.  

• Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

• Friends of the Earth Canada

• P.O.W.E.R

• Pollution Watch

• Precautionary Principle.ca

• Recycling Council of Ontario

• Sierra Club of Canada (Ontario Chapter) Waste Diversion Campaign

• CIELAP - Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy

• CELA - Canadian Environmental Law Association

• Oakville Green

• Communities First

• David Suzuki Foundation

  • Canada must build on toxics treaty

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS

• Zero Waste - GrassRoots Recycling Network

• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

• Stop Trashing the Climate

• EcoCycle - Working to build Zero Waste Communities

• Zero Waste International Alliance - ZWIA

• Zero Waste Alliance

• Zero Vancouver Waste Blog - Citizens taking action ~ Vancouver, Lower Mainland, and beyond

• List of Zero Waste Communities

• Solid Waste-Resource Management Strategy - Nova Scotia

  • Recycling & Waste - Nova Scotia

  • Resource Recovery Fund Board - Nova Scotia

• Eco-Efficiency Centre - Dalhousie University, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

• Eco-Cycle - Working to build Zero Waste Communities

• Niagara-Hamilton Waste Plan

• Product Policy Institute

• French report published on benefits of waste incineration alternatives    

• Waste Reduction Week - Canada

• Parliamentary Commissioner for The Environment - New Zealand - Changing behaviour: Economic instruments in the management of waste

• California Integrated Waste Management Board

  • Incentive Programs for Local Government Recycling and Waste Reduction

  • Business Recycling Policies

  • Construction & Demolition Recycling Plans and Policies

  • Organics Options: Opportunities for Local Government Reuse, Recycling, and Composting

  • Building Maintenance - Garbage and Recycling Services

• EPA Resource Management Website

• Edmonton Composting Facility - state of the art

• Resource Management: Strategic Partnerships for Resource Efficiency

  • EPA Pay As You Throw Website

• Seneca Meadows Landfill - Seneca, NY

  • Gas to Energy from Landfill

More HEALTH, ZERO WASTE, INCINERATION & ENVIRONMENT RELATED

• British Society for Ecological Medicine - The health effects of incinerators
• Zero Waste America - Incinerators make waste more toxic and... New
• The Story of "Stuff" - Annie Leonard       
• Green Garbage Project - How to go a year without garbage - Korst 
• Toxic Nation - Environmental Defence
• Green Action - for Health and Environmental Justice*****
• ***GRRN - Grassroots Recycling Network
  • Garbage is NOT Renewable Energy
• ***GAIA - Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance
  • Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology
• *Citizen's Agenda for Zero Waste - Connett & Sheehan
• Key Facts about Waste & Recycling - DEFRA (UK)
• Clean Production Action
• GAIN - Guildwood Anti-Incinerator Network
• Zero Waste Alliance - Ireland
• Dangerous to fast-track incinerators, critics warn - Waterkeeper
• The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators - British Society for Eco Med
• Sierra Club of Canada Waste Diversion Campaign
• Eco Justice (formerly Sierra Legal)
  • Ontario burns Blue Box, gives incinerators green light
  • Green light for appeal of waste incineration at Ontario cement kiln
  • Dangerous to fast-track incinerators, critics warn
  • Minister undermines smog agreement with U.S.
  • Groups trash Ontario's waste proposal
• Council of Canadian Academies: Nanotechnology 
• Blindspot - UK - solutions to match the scale of the problems  
• Energy Justice Network  
• UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) 

• Solid Waste & Recycling Blog - Guy Crittenden's commentary on issues related to every aspect of waste management in Canada.  

• Mercury Policy Project 

GREEN EDUCATION FOR KIDS

• Green Students Fundraising

• Youth Action Network

• Kids Recycle!

• EcoKids

• Green Street

  • Green Street Youth Action Centre

• Earth Day Canada

• Climate Change Kid's Site - EPA

• Recycle City - interactive story book, and other puzzles

• EcoKids Online

• Environmental Kids Club - EPA

• The Year of the Ocean

THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES  (none are recommended - for info only)

• SITA Isle of Man Waste Management

• Gasification, Pyrolysis & Plasma Incineration

• Thermal Technologies for Waste Management

• White Paper # 8 Biological, Chemical and Thermal Technologies

• How Plasma Converters Work

• Thermal cracking gasification melting system for MSW

• GEM Canada Waste To Energy Inc. - Thermal Cracking Technology

• Plasco Energy Group - Plasma Gasification Technology

• June 2008 Plasco Public Presentation - Plasco CEO Rod Bryden

• A Partnership for Zero Waste Ottawa (with Plasco)

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Page last edited
01 Jul 2010