Resources compiled by GRRN were last updated in 2002.
For current Zero Waste developments, visit these websites:North America
- EcoCycle (Boulder CO)
- Zero Waste Alliance
- Zero Waste America
- Zero Waste California
- Zero Waste in NYC
International
- Zero Waste International Alliance
- Global Alternatives to Incineration Alliance
- Zero Waste New Zealand
- Canberra, Australia, No Waste by 2010
- Zero Waste Kovalam
Annotated ZW Resources
by Gary Liss
Zero Waste Basics [top]
Zero Waste Articles [top]
- Beyond Recycling: The Zero Waste Solution
- Earthday Resources – May-June, 2002
- GRRN Comments On EPA Draft White Paper
- “Beyond RCRA: Prospects For Waste And Materials Management In The Year 2020” – January 31, 2002
- Del Norte County: On the Road to Zero Waste
- By Gary Liss – MSW Management – July 2001
- Moving the bar closer to zero
- By Neil Seldman & Jane Buckley – June 25, 2001 issue of Waste News
- Clearing the Way for Zero Waste
- By Kivi Leroux – Resource Recycling – March 2001
- Zero Waste – No Longer Content to Just Recycle Waste, Environmentalists Want Us to Reduce it to Nothing – COVER STORY
- By Jim Motavalli – E the Environmental Magazine – March April 2001
- Zero Waste Turns Garbage Into Savings
- Environmental News Network, January 2, 2001
- Zero Waste, Recycling and Climate Change
- by Bill Sheehan, GRRN (2000)
- Zero Waste Images from Eco-Cycle
- Getting Wasted
- by Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation (2000)
- The Coming Materials Efficiency Revolution
- by John Young (2000)
- Zero Waste – A New Vision for the 21st Century
- by Paul and Ellen Connett, WasteNot (2000)
- Wasting and Recycling in the United States 2000 (2000)
- Zero Waste and Jobs
- New Zealand Jobs Letter (2000)
- Zero Waste: Management Principles for the Coming Age of Zero Waste
- by Susan Kinsella and Daniel Knapp et al. (1998)
- What is Zero Waste?
- by Gary Liss (1997)
- Natural Capitalism
- by Paul Hawken (Mother Jones, April/May 1997)
- Don’t Waste Your Breath
- by Linda Christopher (1997)
- Zero Cut Meets Zero Waste
- by Bill Sheehan, Ph.D. (1997)
- Zero Waste Goal Offers Durham a Way Out of the Landfill Dilemma
- by David Kirkpatrick (11/96)
- The Natural Step’s Four System Conditions
- (1996)
Zero Waste in the Public Sector [top]
- Influence of Zero Waste and Product Stewardship on California Today
- words from presentation by Linda Moulton-Patterson (2003)
- Daily Emerald -University OR – Street Faire’s zero effect
- (2002)
- GRI Announces Major Effort to Expand International Network of Stakeholders
- by Gary Liss (2002)
- Zero Waste Incentives
- by Gary Liss (2000)
- ILSR Record Setters
- (1999)
- Cuthbert Aphitheatre Cups to Compost Project, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- (2000)
Zero Waste Plans [top]
- General Plans & Agendas
- GRRN’s Agenda for Action (2000)
- GRRN’s Zero Waste Agenda (1997)
- USA – California: Agenda for a New Millennium
by Tedd Ward / California Resource Recovery Association (1998) - USA – Oregon: From Waste Management Towards Zero Waste:
Report for Oregon and the Pacific Northwest (1999) - United Kingdom: A Programme for Zero Waste (1996)
- New Zealand: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust
- Australia: Canberra’s No Waste by 2010 Strategy Report (1996)
- Technical Plans
- Nelson, BC Zero Waste Action Plan (2003)
- Del Norte Zero Waste Plan (2000)
Zero Waste Resolutions [top]
- California, Oakland (2005) – latest example for your community to use as a model!
- California, San Francisco (2002)
- California, Del Norte County (2000)
- California, Santa Cruz County (1999)
- Washington, City of Seattle (1998)
- North Carolina, Carborro (1998)
- GRRN Model Zero Waste Resolution
Zero Waste Recovery Parks [top]
- Resource Recovery Parks: A Model for Local Government Recycling and Waste Reduction
- by Gary Liss, California Integrated Waste Management Board, 2000.
- Resource Recovery-Based Eco-Industrial Parks
- By Ernest A. Lowe with Daniel Knapp (1999)
- Eco-Industrial Parks and Resource Recovery Parks
- By Gary Liss
- Total Recycling Systems
- By Daniel Knapp, Ph.D. & Mary Lou Van Deventer, Urban Ore
- The Twelve Master Categories of Recyclable Materials
By Daniel Knapp, Ph.D. & Mary Lou Van Deventer, Urban Ore - Integrated Resource Recovery Facilities
- Urban Ore (1995) Generic Designs and Projected Performance For Two Sizes of…)
Zero Waste in the Private Sector [top]
- Zero Waste Businesses
- by Gary Liss (2000)
- The NEXT Industrial Revolution
- by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (1999)
- What’s New? Nothing.
- By Gil Friend (1997)
Zero Waste Chat [top]
- Is Zero Waste a Waste Issue?
- By John Trotti, MSW Management, March/April 2002
- If You’re Not for Zero Waste, How Much Waste Are You For?
- By Harvey Gershman, MSW Management, March/April 2002
- Zero Waste – a Washingtonian’s Perspective
- by Don Kneass (9/98)
- Replies by Stephen Suess, Dan Knapp and Pat Franklin
Zero Waste Web Links [top]
- EcoCycle (Boulder CO)
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (Washington DC, USA)
- Target Zero Canada
- Zero Waste New Zealand
- Canberra, Australia, No Waste by 2010
- The Natural Step
- Zero Waste America