Important Links and Publications

Resources

 Legislation

 Organizations

Research Documents  

WTC
and 9/11

Policy Documents

Articles

Members' Solid Waste Publications

Proposed Zero Waste Plan for New York City
This June, 2004 document lays out in detail the recommendations of a large number of environmental organizations for the next 20 years of solid waste management in New York City with a goal of reaching 100% waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting, with zero going to thermal treatment, landfilling or export.  The NYC Waste Prevention Coalition initiated many of the ideas.

Research Documents

NYC Sanitation Dept's Draft Refuse Material Sort Categories, May 2004
Recommendations to Improve DSNY's Waste Characterization sort categories, May 2004
NYC Sanitation Dept's RFP for a NYC Waste Characterization Study, 2004
EPA's Multifamily Recycling study, 2001
NYC Sanitation Dept's SAIC Waste Prevention reports

Policy documents

NYC Mayoral Candidate Responses to Questions on Zero Waste - Aug. 05
Reaching for Zero: Getting Candidates on the Record
Reaching For Zero: The Citizens' Plan for Zero Waste in NYC
Recycling Roundtable Proceedings, Nov. 2002
SAIC Waste Prevention Research reports - Critique by NYC Waste Prevention Coalition
Taking Out the Trash, May 31, 2000
Recycle First - 12/18/1991 - Executive Summary
Recycle First - 12/5/1991 Plan Draft
Recycle First - Appendix 4/7/1992
The Waste Prevention Gold Mine in the 1992 Plan
NYC Comptroller's Assessment of Accuracy of Recycling Costs, 12/2002
City-State Task Force Report on Recycling, 4/2003
Proposed City Recycling Authority, 4/2002
Goodbye Fresh Kills -- Manhattan Borough President's Task Force Report, 1997
 

Legislation, Directives, Resolutions (proposed or otherwise);

NYC E-Waste Bill of 2005
6 Environmental Procurement bills 2005
Zero Waste Model resolution     Zero Waste Briefing Kit
Intro 89 of 2004 - City Agency Environmental Procurement
Intro 95 of 2004 - Alternative Disposal of Solid Waste (other than Incineration or Landfilling)
Temporary Suspension of Glass and Plastic - Local Law 11 of 2002
City Council Modifications to 2000 Solid Waste Management Plan
New York State Solid Waste Management - NYS Statutes
New York State Solid Waste Management Act of 1988
New York State Waste Prevention Program
Mayoral Directive on Waste Prevention - 1996
San Francisco's Sunshine Law 
Intro 509 of 1995: City Agency Environmental Procurement
Intro 482 of 1998: City Agency Environmental Procurement / Waste Prevention Practices bill
Intro 29 of 2002: City Agency Environmental Procurement
New York State Procurement law - 2000
California Integrated Waste Management Act
Local Law 19 of 1989 (NYC's Recycling Law)
Returnable Beverage Containers (NYS Law)

Organizations

Alameda County Source Reduction & Recycling Board
California Integrated Waste Management Board
Grassroots Recycling Network
Indiana - Greening the Government site
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Materials for the Arts
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance - 3 R's site
National Recycling Coalition
National Waste Prevention Coalition
NYC Independent Budget Office
NYC Sanitation's WasteLe$$ site
NYC Wa$teMatch
New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3)
9/11 Environmental Action
Northeast Recycling Council (NERC)
Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (FEE)
Per Scholas
Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation
 Recycle a Bicycle
Reuse Development Organization (ReDO)
Tellus Institute
Waste News - a weekly newspaper
 

Resources

GRRN Zero Waste Resources
No Waste by 2010 (Australia)
USEPA's Pay As You Throw site
California Integrated Waste Management Board
    Waste Reduction at Venue Facilities and Large Events
Indiana - Greening the Government site
National Waste Prevention Coalition
Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (FEE)
Alameda County Source Reduction & Recycling Board - Stop Waste campaign
GRRN Producer Take Back Campaign
GRRN End Subsidies for Wasting Campaign
Bottle Bill Resource Guide
USEPA Waste Prevention Page
USEPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Page
NYC Dept of Sanitation Publications and Reports
National Association of State Purchasing Officials Database of Recycled Commodities
Yale Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy
Minnesota Ofc of Env Assistance No-Waste Holiday Ideas
Ecocyle - Environment Canada's newsletter on Lifecycle Management
NYPIRG's Solid Waste Campaign
Freecycle
ABCfree

 

Members' Publications

Dr. Maggie Clarke:  on Solid Waste Management and World Trade Center Air Quality Issues

Solid Waste Issues

"Understanding Participation in New York City's Recycling Program", presented at and published in the Proceedings of The Twentieth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, PA April 3 - 6, 2005 

Optimizing Recycling in All the Neighborhoods of New York City:  The Roles of Demographics, Education, Barriers, and Program Changes, presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, PA  U.S.A. March 21 – 24, 2004

Recycling in Minority Communities in New York City, presented at National Recycling Coalition Congress, Baltimore, MD, September 16, 2003

Introduction to Waste Prevention and Recycling, presented at and published in Proceedings of Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, June 23-27, 2002

Introduction to Municipal Solid Waste Incineration, presented at and published in Proceedings of Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, June 23-27, 2002

"Reasons against re-opening Fresh Kills landfill".,New York Times, City Section,  April 14, 2002.
 
New York City After Fresh Kills: Latest Developments in the Planning Process (the Saga continues), presented and published in the Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association's 94th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Orlando, FL, June 24-28, 2001

Characterization of Cold Start and Upset Conditions in Municipal Waste Combustors, presented and published in the Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association's 93rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT, June, 2000

Design and Implementation of a Field Study of Durable Products and Recyclables Discards in New York City and New Jersey, presented and published in the Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association's 93rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT, June, 2000

 Testing the Effectiveness of Supermarket-Based Environmental Shopping Campaigns in Changing Consumer Behavior in New York City, Ph.D.dissertation, City University of New York, 1999.

Do Environmental Shopping Educational Campaigns Work?, presented at and published in at the Air & Waste Management Association’s 90th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, June 8-13, 1997, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Environmental Procurement In New York City:  A Critique of the Present System and A Description of Proposed New Legislation, presented at and published in Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association’s 89th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, June, 1996, Nashville, TN

Emissions standards for Municipal Waste Combustors:  Discussion and Critique about Recently Proposed Standards, presented at 1995 International Conference on Solid Waste Management:  Thermal Treatment and Waste-to-Energy Technologies, Washington, DC, April 18 - 21, 1995
 

Integrated MSW Planning and Decision-Making in New York City:  The Citizens' Alternative Plan,  published in: Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, April, 1993

Waste Characterization Studies and the Solid Waste Hierarchy, February, 1992, published in Resource Recycling.
The Paradox and the Promise of Source Reduction, September, 1989
 
9/11 Air Quality Issues - in chronological order

 Testimony Before the New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection:  Oversight Hearings on the Environmental Impacts on Lower Manhattan Due to the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center    November 8, 2001

Testimony before the State Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation Public hearing on health matters resulting from the 9/11 WTC attacks, November 26, 2001 (amended Dec. 9, 2001 and January 7, 2002)

Testimony to US Senate Environment Committee hearing on Air Quality issues surrounding the World Trade Center collapses and fires, February, 2002

Testimony before the USEPA Ombudsman's hearing; 500 Pearl St., New York, NY, February 23, 2002
 

Testimony before the New York City Council Environmental Protection Committee hearing on Air Quality issues surrounding the World Trade Center collapses and fires, March 8, 2002

Testimony before EPA Ombudsman's second hearing on Air Quality issues surrounding the World Trade Center collapses and fires, March 11, 2002

Testimony before NYS Assembly's second hearing on Air Quality issues surrounding the World Trade Center collapses and fires, April 12, 2002

LMDC Public Hearing Comments on WTC Memorial, October 7, 2002

Testimony to Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works regarding emergency response to environmental disasters and Christie Whitman’s recent Testimony to Congress, October 15, 2002
 
Testimony to NY City Council on Problems with EPA's "cleanup" of Lower Manhattan, December, 17, 2002
 

Problems with EPA's Scopes of Work for Remediation of WTC Contamination, October, 2002

Comments on Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster, Maggie Clarke, Ph.D., QEP, Monona Rossol, MS., M.F.A., IH, and Uday Singh, IH, April 7, 2003

Further comments by Maggie Clarke, Ph.D., QEP, on EPA document for peer review:  Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster, July 15, 2003

The Precautionary Principle or Junk Science?  What should public health and environmental agencies be ethically bound to do?  Press conference, October, 20, 2003.

Bad Decisions resulting from EPA's statements: the air is safe to breathe, by Members of 9/11 Environmental Action, Oct. 13, 2003

Testimony to New York City Council Hearing on Post-9/11 Remediation of WTC Contamination (revised), March 30, 2004

Testimony to EPA WTC Expert Technical Review Panel - revised, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY  April 12, 2004

Testimony to EPA Expert Panel on WTC contamination, New York, NY.  July 26, 2004

‘Gold Standard’ for Remediation of WTC Contamination, New Solutions - A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, co-author, Volume 14, Number 3, 2004, pp. 119-217.

Testimony to EPA Expert Panel on WTC contamination, New York, NY. September 13, 2004


Articles

An unnatural disaster: · Global warming to kill off one million species; Scientists shocked by results of research; 1 in 10 animals and plants extinct by 2050

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us:  Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war;  Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years; Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

 

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