03/30/09

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Bisphenol-A	Durham Region's Energy from Waste Proposal
Recycling Information	Health Effects
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Bisphenol-A:

•  The Toxic Nation Guide to Toxic Baby Bottles

•  Environmental Defence: Bisphenol A is "Toxic"

•  BPA leaching from food cans | Toxic Nation

•  Bisphenol-A Gets Another “F” in Health

Information related to Durham Region's Energy from Waste Proposal:

•  Final Rule on the Implementation of the New Source Review Provisions for Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 microns - Fact Sheet

•  Fight against incinerator gathering support in Durham

•  'Easy to say no' to incineration: Regional Chairman

•  Gimme Some Of That Old Time EnviroReligion - John Barber, Globe and Mail

•  Garbage incinerator site in Clarington given green light

•  Regional councillors getting an earful

Information related to Durham Region Municipal Health Council Delegation, September 26, 2007:

•  Health Costs

Information related to Clarington Council Delegation, July 30, 2007:

•  Impacts of Waste Incineration on Human Health - Presentation to Durham Agricultural Advisory Committee

•  Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadians

•  Durham plays 'willing host' to incinerator (payment is required to Globe and Mail)

•  When were the Durham/York public to be informed that Ramboll was retained?

•  Canadian Energy From Waste Provincial Lobbyists (Jacques Whitford and Genivar are there!)

•  July 30, 2007 - Presentation to Clarington Council

•  Powerpoint Presentation of above

•  Friends of the Earth Europe - Stopping the Waste - Policy Briefing

•  Danish Emission Sources, 2005

•  Annually NERI reports

•  2005 state of the environment report in Denmark

•  RAMBØLL - Waste to Energy

•  RAMBOLL - Client Page

•  RAMBOLL - Client Page (Updated October 2007)

•  SITA Isle of Man Annual Report 2004-2005

•  SITA Cornwall

•  Comparison of Air Emissions from WtE Facilities to Fossil Fuel Power Plants

•  CBC Interview on Incineration

•  Nova Scotia's Vision Becomes Reality

•  Energy From Waste (Clarington)

•  Cancer Research: Misspent Money

•  Environmental Defence

Information about Recycling:

• Steps Ahead Towards Zero Waste

•  Ontario Zero Waste Coalition announced

•  7 Misconceptions About Plastics and Plastic Recycling

•  Safe Use of Plastics: Quick Guide

Health Effects:

•  Book: The Secret History of the War on Cancer, by Devra Davis

•  Book Review: The Secret History of the War on Cancer, by Devra Davis

•  Living on Earth: Cancer-Causing Chemicals - Dr. Devra Lee Davis

•  Declines in Sex Ratio at Birth and Fetal Deaths in Japan, and in U.S. Whites but Not African Americans

•  Energy From Waste Report: Dr. Lesbia Smith

•  Peer Review of the Regions of York and Durham Energy-from-Waste Generic Risk Assessment

•  MOE Environmental Assessment Activities: Durham/York Residual Waste Study

•  Northwest Territories Contaminants Fact Sheets - Dioxins and Furans

•  Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure - Institute of Medicine

•  Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds - The PDF report

•  Dioxin - in Our Food, Our Bodies

•  Study links dioxin pollution in Arctic to North American sources

•  Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans

Canada-Wide:

•  Top 10 Ways to Detoxify

•  Green Budget Coalition

•  Guideline for the Implementation of Canada-wide Standards for Emissions of Mercury and of Dioxins and Furans...

•  Crackdown on hospital incinerator emissions coming soon

•  The Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great lakes Basin Ecosystem

Ontario:

• TheStar.com | Green energy our best shot

• TheStar.com | Let's hope book spurs McGuinty to get bold Review of Ontario’s Waste Diversion Act, 2002: Discussion Paper for Public Consultation

•  Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine - Ontario shifts toward Zero Waste approach

•  Cancer and the Environment in Ontario: Gap Analysis on the Reduction of Environmental Carcinogens

•  Home Depot to recycle CFL Bulbs!

•  Cancer cases in Ontario to increase by 2/3 by 2020

•  Smog Alert Response - A Municipal Guide to Action

•  WasteEdge publication

•  Two Sides of Garbage Incineration - Toronto Star article

•  Study of Stabilized Landfill - Niagara/Hamilton/Toronto

•  Up 2 The Gills: Pollution in Great Lakes Fish: Environmental Defence

•  Halton Region: Energy from Waste Business Case

•  Comment from Peer Review prepared by L.D. Pengelly, Ph.D., P. Eng.

•  York cuts back on Durham incinerator commitment

•  Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish

•  Generic Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment Study - Durham/York Residual Risk Study

•  East Gwillambury says "No" to Incineration

•  Northumberland County Reuse Flyer

•  Northumberland Materials Recovery Facility

•  Durham-York waste plan might need Northumberland

•  Medical Waste Management

•  Durham Region News: Incineration: While some raise questions, others defend technology

•  Emission Limits Comparison July-7-06 and Energy From Waste

•  The Ontario/Michigan Waste Issue

•  So, why don't we just burn our garbage?

•  Brampton incinerator is no solution to garbage conundrum

Halifax:

•  Halifax Tour Presentation

Edmonton:

•  Edmonton wastes no time in reaching #1

•  Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence

•  Edmonton.com: Travel, Tourism & Leisure - Environment

•  WasteFacts

•  Waste Management: Edmonton's Strategic Direction: Improve Waste Management Practices

•  ICLEI Global: Edmonton, Canada - Edmonton Waste Management Centre

British Columbia:

•  B.C. launches air action plan

•  Recycling Council of British Columbia's Zero Waste Working Group

South Burnaby, British Columbia:

•  Solid Waste Management 2004 Annual Report

•  Burnaby Waste to Energy video

•  Burnaby Waste to Energy

•  About Onyx Montenay Inc.

European Union:

•  Marks & Spencer to Receive 2008 World Environment Center Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development

•  Marks & Spencer launches ''Plan A''- £200m 'eco-plan'

•  Marks & Spencer: Plan A Videos

•  M&S and Oxfam to launch ‘M&S and Oxfam Clothes Exchange’ - UK’s biggest clothing recycling campaign

•  The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators 4th Report of the British Society for Ecological Medicine

•  House of Commons: Hansard - Written Answers (Scroll down to 17 Oct 2002: Column 926W)

•  Environmental and Health Risks Associated with the Use of Processed Incinerator Bottom Ash in Road Construction

•  Proximity of some incinerators to zones of high & low infant Mortality Rates in London

•  Findings of Nanopathology in Italy

•  New product tax needed to increase recycling and stop waste at source

•  Municipal waste management in the European Union

•  Major recycling operation for Europe's waste policy - EU Policy Press Release

•  EU monitoring of foods UK data 2005

•  Questions and Answers on the Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste

•  Industry insider document from Holland how to change public preceptions on EFW

•  Waste Incineration: A Potential Danger? (By the German Environment Ministry [BMU], September 2005)

•  The European Position by Ella Stengler

United States of America:

• Eco Products & Services: SF Approved Green Products

•  San Francisco: A city committed to recycling is ready for more

•  2008 Environmental Performance Index

•  Nanoparticles and the Environment

•  EPA recommends CEM Equipment to ensure verified emissions for pollutants

•  City to Brief Council on Plasma Arc Recommendations for Landfill, City and County of Honolulu

Sweden:

•  C40 Cities-Best Practices:Gothenburg Waste to energy cuts 200,000tCo2

•  Ottawa Economic Club Presentation

•  Slides for the above presentation

•  EU nanotechnology R&D in the field of Health and Environmental Impact of nanoparticles

•  Managing POPs in Sweden

•  Implementation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy - Sweden’s report to the European Commission, June 2007

•  World Bans the Dirty Dozen Most Dangerous Chemicals

•  Malmo Sysav EfW facility video

•  Malmo Sysav Emissions

•  Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ 2004 Community Energy Planning Mission

•  Incineration in Sweden and Holland Main Source of Dioxin

•  Swedish incineration recommendations - Helsinki Commission

Denmark:

•  C40 Cities-Best Practices: Copenhagen Landfill

Norway:

•  C40 Cities-Best Practices: Oslo Waste

•  Fewer incineration plants in 2005

Australia:

•  The Dioxin Controversy: Spilling Over into Schools

Other News:

•  ireland.com - Breaking News - Tue, Mar 13, 2007 - Greens pledge to end fluoridation

•  The International Climate Change Summary