SEE ALSO:

GARBAGE WAR ON THE FUTURE
Presentation to the Metro Vancouver Solid Waste Committee

The New Catalyst - Garbage: War on the future?
Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.08 - No.05b, 1989

Credits

Research & writing: C.A.N. -Dermot Foley, Lenore Herb; Y.E.S. - Van Andruss.

Special thanks to the major financial sponsors: Western Canada Wilderness Commit-tee and Greeenpeace; to the other financial contributors - Brinkman & Associates Reforestation Ltd., Cache Creek Area Residents United, Catalyst Education Society, Yalakom Ecological Society - and ecologically-aware advertisers who helped make this Special Report possible.

GROUPS TO CONTACT:

The following groups are actively working on the GVRD garbage issue. Contact them for further information or to provide support:

Vancouver Citizens' Action Network,
#206 - 1134 Burnaby St.,
Vancouver, B.C. V6E 1P1;
Phone: 604-692-0647

Cache Creek Area Residents United,
P.O. Box 1000, Ashcroft, B.C. V0K 1A0;
Phone: 459-7020; 453-9391; 373-2312

Cache Creek Landfill Legal Defense Fund,
P.O. Box 593, Cache Creek, B.C. V0K 1H0.

Greenpeace,
2623 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6K 1P8
Phone: (604) 736-0321

FURTHER READING

Dirty Business: The Inside Story of the New Garbage Agglomerates, by Harold Crooks (Toronto: Lorimer, 1983) is a fascinating history of the political economy of the Canadian and U.S. garbage industry dominated by four major companies.

Dire Straits: Pollution In The Strait of Georgia, by Bob Lyons (Vancouver: Greenpeace, 1989).

Toxics in The Housenhold, Greenpeace.

THE NEW CATALYST
A Quarterly Review of Western Regions
Date of issue: June 1989

The New Catalyst is published by the Catalyst Education Society, P.O. Box 99, Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0 (Tel: Radio: H42-4955, JW Channel).

Printed in Canada by: Valleyweb Graphics, Surrey, B.C.

Copyright 1989. Reproduction encouraged.

This Special Report is a collaborative effort by Vancouver Citizens' Action Network, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Yalakom Ecological Society and The New Catalyst.

Articles

    * The Lower Mainland's garbage crisis
    * "Tainted fuel" - RDF: Refuse-derived fuel
    * Locals condemn resources recovery plant
    * Human and environmental heatlh risks
    * Environmental costs of wasted resources
    * One can vs Three can plans
    * Garbage - What happens when we just throw it away?
    * Key garbage areas in the Lower Mainland
    * Dumping on democracy
    * Trashing Native burial grounds
    * Public opposition growing
    * Dump "The plan," NOT the garbage
    * Credits, footnotes, and citations