Literature and Publications

RRC Publications

Waste in the U.S. (Presentation, 2004, Scott M. Kaufman, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University)
State of Garbage in America - Data and Methodology Assessment (Biocycle Report, 2004, Scott M. Kaufman, Nora Goldstein, Karsten Millrath, Nickolas J. Themelis, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University)
The State of Garbage in America (Biocycle Report, 2006, Phil Simmons, Nora Goldstein, Scott M. Kaufman, Nickolas J. Themelis, James Thompson, Jr.)
Waste Management (Bogner, J., M. Abdelrafie Ahmed, C. Diaz, A. Faaij, Q. Gao, S. Hashimoto, K. Mareckova, R. Pipatti, T. Zhang, Waste Management, In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA)
Desing for Environment: A Methode for Formulating Product End-Of-Life Strategies (Catherine M. Rose, Dissertation Stanford University, Nov. 2000)

Recycling Magazine, Worldwide Information
BioCycle, Journal of composting & Organics Recycling
PETpla.net insider
Paper 360°
Recycling Today, Magazine
Waste News, Magazine
Waste Management World, Magazine
Recycling International, Magazine (provides a comprehensive collection of recycling links)

Energy Savings by Waste Recycling (R. Porter, T. Roberts for the Commision of the European Communities; Taylor & Francis, 2005; ISBN 0-85334-353-5)
International Universal Recycling Codes (Wikipedia)
The Life-Cycle of a Plastic Product (American Plastics Council webpage)
Industrial Ecology, Towards Closing the Material Cycle (R.U. Ayres, L.W. Ayres; Edward Elgar Publishing Company, Cheltenham, UK, Brookfield, US; 1996, ISBN 1-85898-397-5)
Industrial Ecology, 2nd Edition (T.E. Graedel, B.R. Allenby; Prentice Hall, New Jersey, US, 2003, ISBN 0-13-046713-8)
Bronx Ecology, Blueprint for a New Environmentalism (Allen Hershkowitz, Island Press, US, 2002, ISBN 1-55963-864-8)
Scrap Specifications Circular 2007