Last modified: March 23, 2019

Articles and Publications about Ending Landfills

Landfill Resources

• Publications by Dr. G. Fred Lee on Landfills and Groundwater Quality Protection [off-site]
• Bioreactors and EPA Proposal to Deregulate Landfills - Biocycle, 2003
• Landfill Basics -- How They are Constructed and Why They Fail [off-site]
  Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking (ACTION Center) and Rachel's
• Citizen's Guide to Municipal Landfills [no longer available online]
  Friends of the Earth USA 1996
• Confessions of a Landfill Apologist
  By Richard V. Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates,San Diego, CA, May 2002

Waste Industry vs. Recycling

• How the Waste Industry Really Sees Recycling: As Lost Profit! (May 2001)
• The Impact of Waste Industry Consolidation on Recycling [pdf]
  By Peter Anderson, Joan Edwards, Michael Garfield, Judi Gregory, Gary Liss, Eric Lombardi and Peter Montague. MSW Management, June 2001.
• Endgame: Consolidation and Competition in the Solid Waste Industry [pdf]
  By Peter Anderson. MSW Management, 2000.
• How, Despite Overwhelming Public Support, the Waste Industry Has Undermined Recycling
  By Mike Garfield, From The Ground Up (Ecology Center - Ann Arbor MI), June/July 2000.

Exclusive Franchises

• GRRN files Amicus Brief in California Opposing Exclusive Franchises - December 2000