Thinking for the Future:

The Possibility of Zero Waste
in the Regional District of Nanaimo

Resources

Publications

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments by Mark Roseland. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island: 1998.

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island: 1996.

"Del Norte Zero Waste Plan" by the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority Staff, 1992.

"Clearing the way for zero waste" by Kivi Leroux. Resource Recycling, March 2001.

"Discarding the Idea of Waste: the Need for a Zero Waste Policy in British Columbia" a discussion paper by Micheal Jessen. May 2000.

"Zero Waste: A Vision for the 21st Century" by Ellen and Paul Connett. Waste Not #463, August 2000.

Websites

Zero Waste Canada: Resources - available at www.targetzerocanada.org

Toenail Environmental Services - available at www.toenail.org/home

Grassroots Recycling Network - available at www.grrn.org/zerowaste/zerowaste

Interviews

Gary Franssen - City of Nanaimo Public Works Department

John Beuete - International Paper Industries

Ed Walsh - Salish Disposal

Sean Fedorowich - Nanaimo Recycling Exchange

Bob Andrews - Gabriola Island Recycling Organization

Roz Powell - Community Involvement Project/NRE Changes Program

Alan Stanley - Regional District of Nanaimo Solid Waste Department

Laurie Gallant - Footprint Environmental

Michael Jessen - Toenail Environmental Services

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