BIO-WISE Free advice on biotechnology applications.

University College Northampton Wastes Management Library
Extensive collection of waste management research and information. Holds bibliographic material collected by the former, and now disbanded, UK Waste Management Information Bureau previously operated by AEA Technology plc.

Waste & Environment Today News Review Journal
Extensive collection of selected archive material from the News Review Journal formerly published by the UK Waste Management Information Bureau and National Environmental Technology Centre operated by AEA Technology plc.

World Resources Foundation Link to Resource Recovery Forum and the Warmer Bulletin.

The Warmer Bulletin, published since 1983 is read in 60 countries and is available in English and Spanish. The site comprises an indexed library facility of over 17,000 items, useful links to a wide variety of resources including national environment agencies together with information on composting, recycling, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), hazardous houshold waste (HHW), vehicles, producer responsibility, life cycle assessment (LCA), educational resources and packaging. The links were last updated in July 2001.

The Resource Recovery Forum is a company limited by guarantee and an ENTRUST registered environmental body. Established in 1997 the RRF comprises over 60 organisations with interests in sustainable waste management.

Anglian Water Water and wastewater treatment information from the major water company, part of the AWG Plc group, located in Eastern England which serves 6 million customers. Anglian Water has long been in the forefront of recycling sewage sludge to agriculture.

Wastecare Commercial resource for waste producers in British Isles and Gibraltar giving access to on-line quotations for collection, treatment, recovery and recycling of both hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, including spent fluorescent tubes, vegetable oil and X-ray film. Operated by Silver Lining Industries Limited, an ISO14001 and ISO9002 accredited company, spot prices for precious metals - silver, gold, palladium, platinum together with those for copper, aluminium and magnesium from the London Metal Exchange and London Bullion Market are also accessible.

Envirowise A government programme offering free advice on waste minimisation and improving environmental performance by waste reduction at source.

EUROPE

Bionet International Transfer Centre for Environmental Technology. Information on EU biowaste treatment and events. Available in both English and German.

NORTH AMERICA

Air and Waste Management Association Access to advice on air pollution and waste management treatment technologies. An on-line library, currently in a beta-version, permits download of articles from the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, EM magazine, books and CDs. Good guide to conferences in North America.

Solid Waste Association of North America Extensive directory of professional services in the environmental field including equipment for landfill, odour control, waste-to-energy, waste collection and composting. The SWANA main site also includes educational resources and an events diary.

WORLD

UN International Environmental Technology Centre

This site is regularly updated providing news of UNEP supported technology projects, international conferences and UNEP publications available on-line. Recent additions include guidance on an ecosystems approach to urban management, community and citizen involvement with local government environmental management programmes.

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WASTE RECYCLING & RECOVERY

UNITED KINGDOM

Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau (SCRIB) Information on all aspects of steel recycling and the role of SCRIB. An attractive and educational site which, however, has not been significantally added to since 2001.

Rapra Technology Ltd.An excellent source of information on all aspects of plastics and rubber technology including a technical information enquiry service.

British Glass
Organisation for glass manufacturers, glass supply and user companies, promoting the use and recycling of glass.

Building Research Establishment Access to information on various building research programmes including

Budgeting for Sustainability

A new website launched in July 2004 which addresses whole life values and best value in accounting for the environmental, social and economic benefits of an early investment in building design quality in public sector construction projects.

ContaminatedLAND An interesting website resource about contaminated land but tinged with an underlying political leaning.

EPS Recycling Information Service General advice, contact details of UK EPS recyclers + EPS recycling fact sheets. Latest issue of EPS News in pdf format available on line is for June 2004.

Composting Association
Information, research and best practice on composting and use of compost.

CADDET Renewable Energy Programme News and information resource about renewable energy. Technology database containing over 2000 case studies. The site suffers from being somewhat slow at times. CADDET now includes

Recycling Sewage Sludge to Land

Comprehensive review of UK practices in recycling sewage sludge to agricultural land carried out for UK Department of Environment. Survey of scientific literature and detailed review of the chemistry of phytotoxic metals and metalloids in soils and their uptake by plants with extensive bibliography. Biochemical and health effects of metals in foodcrops.

EUROPE

NICOLE Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe sponsored by 141 members with 27 industry members. Useful knowledge base and abstracts of projects such as risk communication and good practice in studies of contaminated land.

BRT Recycling Technologie Recycling equipment

Bureau of International Recycling Multilingual information on recycling issues

NORTH AMERICA

Materials for the Future Foundation Useful links on secondary materials and recycling market development. Ignore the under construction notice on the first page as many of the links on following pages relating to environment, waste and recycling are fully operational.

ACI Plastics American Comodities -Engineering grade plastics reclamation

US Steel Recycling Institute Steel recycling initiatives in the USA.

Alumininium Can Recycling. Web site of the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), the trade association for can manufacturers and their suppliers. Details about member companies, their products, industry issues and statistics together with educational material about the can industry.

Recycler's World Secondary commodities

This excellent site provides access to a wide range of commodity information including for the recycling of automotives, batteries, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, wood, rubber, textiles, compost and food wastes together with used commercial goods and equipment.

Ground Water Remediation Technologies Analysis Centre Regularly updated information on innovative groundwater remediation, database, technical documents on line, and regulatory information.

Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries

Market focused web resource for business producers and consumers of steel suitable for recycling including automobiles, domestic appliances and computers. Site provides access to scrap market data and statistics togeher with design information for recycling.

Can Central Manufacturing details for aluminium cans, statistics and industry issues such as deposit laws, excise taxes and packaging measures.

Glass Packaging Institute This is a well presented and regularly updated site with information about glass products, their marketing and recycling and useful links.

American Plastics Council Comprehensive information on plastics and the environment including electronics recovery and recycling, recycled products and market databases.

Composting Council of Canada. Composting information in English and French.

The Compost Resource Page. A hub for composting information with something of interest for everyone from beginner to expert.

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TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT - SOIL, AIR AND WATER

The Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe Information on the management of contaminated land and groundwater pollution and forum for exchange of practical scientific information.

Air Toxics Health and Ecological Effects Generalised technical information on air toxics including health and ecological effects from the US Environmental Protection Agency.Air toxic data and maps by zip code area.

American Water Works Association.Very comprehensive and regularly updated web site providing information on most aspects of water quality including consumer issues. Useful fact sheets on individual topics such as arsenic, atrazine, Cryptosporidium, fluoride, lead etc.

US Water Quality Association Technical papers on all aspects of water quality available on-line and excellent search facility.

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MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The Oceanography Society Non-profit organisation and publishers of Oceanography Magazine. Educational employment information in oceanography. Oceanography Conferences.

Environment Australia Coasts and Oceans including strategic management of the Great Barrier Reef. Recently updated to include the 2004 structural adjustment package for the Reef.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

High quality information on ocean sciences and regional programmes in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans from the 129 Member State Commission. Includes information on major issues such as marine environmental protection, fisheries and ecosystems, climate change, coastal area management and disaster mitigation. International events and conference diary.

Oceanography Information Servers University of California Centre for Coastal Studies and Scripps Institution of Oceanography resources including comprehensive links (in need of some updating) to oceanography research around the world.

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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) "MIDORI" is the first international space platform dedicated to Earth environmental research developed and managed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA).

World Climate Research Programme Recognising the importance of these processes for the climate system, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) set up, in 1992, a research project to study Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC).

World Meteorological Organisation Information on weather, water, atmosphere and climate from the UN Metorological Organisation. Includes UN programme information on global climate change observing, hydrology and water resources, climate research and weather watch.
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NATURE AND BIODIVERSITY

World Conservation Monitoring Centre Site of the independent, non-profit World Conservation Monitoring Centre founded in 1998 jointly by IUCN, WWF and UNEP. Extensive information resource about species and their habitats. Details of international treaties.

Protected Marine Species Extensive links to sites on marine species including dolphins, whales, porpoise, sea lions and many more.

Oceanography World Wide Web Servers Links to the most important Marine Conservation Societies

Wonderful World of Insects Essential information about insects and spiders including their classification, habitats and specialist societies.

Bird Monitoring in North America Census and migration details for birds in the USA and Canada.

Biodiversity in Australia Information on domestic Australian invasive and threatened species and international issues. Resources to assist local government prioritise biodiversity conservation as a local issue.

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LEGISLATION

UNITED KINGDOM

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Responsible for regional and local government, planning and regeneration in England.

UK Environmental Change Network Monitoring and research to detect and interpret environmental change

Health and Safety Executive Health and safety publications, press releases and statistics.

Environment Agency UK environmental policy and practice

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)Environmental regulatory body in Scotland.

Scottish Executive The Scottish Executive is the devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including the environment, local government and planning.

UK Air Quality Data Regularly updated on-line information

Landfill Tax. HM Revenue and Customs is responsible for the implementation of landfill tax in the UK together with the

Climate Change Levy - designed to help the UK meet its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the

Aggregates Levy - designed to reduce the need for quarrying of virgin materials and to encourage reuse of aggregrates.

Environmental Trust Scheme Regulatory Body (ENTRUST)
The regulatory body for the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme.

EUROPE

European Information Service, Belgium Specialised information on European affairs (text in English and French)

Ballerina Environmental information resources for the Baltic region

Stockholm Environment Institute Global and regional environmental research

NORTH AMERICA

Environment Canada Canadian environmental policy and practice

Ozone layer depletion Auditor General's Report

Eco-Purchasing in the US

EPA Office of Solid Waste Home Page

EPA Office of Solid Waste Full cost accounting

EPA Office of Solid Waste Nonhazardous waste

EPA Office of Solid Waste Waste prevention

EPA Office of Solid Waste Pay-as-you-Throw

EPA Office of Solid Waste Waste Wi$e

EPA Office of Solid Waste Municipal Solid Waste

Enflex Environmental, health and safety regulatory information

US Water Environment Federation & Air and Waste Management Association Products, legislation, information and discussions related to the water environment.

Department of Energy Energy efficiency & renewable energy resource

US Environmental Protection Agency (General) Access to all EPA related web sites

US Department of Energy Fossil Energy Programme

USEPA Pollution prevention guidance documents

US Library of Congress Legislative information

WORLD

International Global Communications Grassroots organisation dedicated to environmental sustaiability coupled with socio-political aims such as peace, human rights, women's rights, worker rights and conflict resolution.

Thailand Environment Institute Thai environmental management resource

Environmental Resources Information Network Australian Department of Environment and Heritage web site. Attractive, easy to navigate and very useful site recently upgraded. Includes an environmental reporting tool.

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ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS

NORTH AMERICA

Research Centre for Groundwater Remediation Design Soil, water-saturated aquifers and DNAPLs

Office of Science US Department Energy Research, pollution prevention information.

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CHEMICALS AND ENVIRONMENT

Chemical Health and Safety Data Data formerly collated by the US National Toxicology Programme from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS) - including the former Carcinogensis Bioassay Programme, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/ NIOSH), and the Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA/NCTR). Background data on the 80,000 chemicals in use in the United States and the estimated 2,000 new chemicals introduced annually. The NTP has now ceased responsibility for updating this data.

US National Toxicology Program Factsheets on human exposure assessment, risk assessment methodology, occupational exposures.
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ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY

ISO14000 Business infomation centre

Environmental Services Association. Formerly the UK National Association of Waste Contractors (NAWDC), the ESA represents the UK waste management industry and secondary resources industry.

Chemical Industry Many linked environmental and other sites.

Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Fully searchable site for information on the paper and related industries worldwide

Frost & Sullivan Consultancy Services Environmental consultants

Canadian Pulp and Paper Association News about the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association including library resources, biodiversity database and information on sustainable forestry.

Malaysian Timber Council. Information about the timber trade, forestry and environment including biodiversity conservation and illegal logging.

Finnish Forests. General background about the Scandanavian and European forestry industry and the economic importance of forestry.

EcoSite Eco-inventory of packaging in the UK

World Bank Business Information Centre

Commission for Economic Cooperation North American Environemtal initiatives

BT Society and Environment information from the BT telecommunications group. Includes data on social and environmental reporting, annual company environment reports, environmental management system, product stewardship and business social, economic and environmental impacts.

Northern Telecom Environmental information

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CONSUMER MATTERS

The Green Consumer Guide. A publication run by Greenmedia Publishing. Emphasis on UK and public sector environment information.

Ecotopia. Good range of environmentally friendly consumer products including clothes, energy products, paint and wood treatments, bulk buying, recycled craft goods, books and magazines, body care. A somewhat cookie-ridden site, however.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Clean Washington Centre. Information and resources on clean technogies for the organics, wood, glass, plastic, paper, industrial and rubber sectors in the US Pacific Northwest Economic Region.

Biotechnology Regulatory Atlas Replacing the old Bioguide, this UK cross-government biotechnology portal provides guides to regulation and useful introductory guides to topics such as genetic engineering and GM foods. Limited technical information but includes a useful search facility.
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ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH

GNET GNET is an environmental technology, news and business centre promoting the use of innovative environmental technologies. Supported by the US National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Department of Energy Office of Science and Techology.
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ENERGY

CADDET Renewable Energy Global information on proven, commercial applications covering the full range of renewable energy technologies from the International Energy Agency and OECD.

Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology Bioenergy, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar energy programmes mostly in the USA.

Loughborough University Centre for Renewable Energy Systems (CREST). Good selection of links to wind, solar and other renewable energy centres.

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wide range of information on all aspects of nuclear power including reactors, nuclear materials, radioactive waste and public involvement. Excellent and frequently updated site.

US Department of Energy Efficientcy and Renewable Energy.Information on geothermal, ocean, solar and wind power. Another excellent and regularly updated US government web site on renewable energy.

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RESOURCES AND MATERIALS

Materials for the Future Califoria based community programme promoting the environmental goals of resource conservation through waste prevention, reuse, and recycling with the economic development goals of job creation/retention, enterprise development, and local empowerment. This site though presently still under construction is regularly updated. Information on most aspects of materials science.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

International Salvage Union Extensive information on marine salvage, material can be downloaded directly

Action Without Borders Ideas, info and resources + searchable database of NGOs
Sustainability Web Ring Best practices in sustainable development

Environmental Defence Fund.Home of the 400,000 member US environmental advocacy group - probably the world's most effective environmental pressure group.

United Nations Environment Programme Access to all UNEP programmes

Global Environment Facility Environmental arm of the World Bank, promoting sustainable economic growth

UNCED Rio Conference and beyond, all documents available in English, French and Spanish

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives Encouraging local government action on the environment

Friends of the Earth News of FoE activities.

Greenpeace News of greenpeace activities.

World Wildlife Fund Extensive wildlife data

UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Stratospheric Ozone Ozone

Stratospheric Ozone Methyl bromide phase out

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental research

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EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND UNION

The Week in Europe - European Commission Latest news from the European Union.

European CommissionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union and is responsible for implementing and managing policy. Commission proposals are submitted to the European Council and the European Parliament.

European Environment Agency

FEAD
The European Federation which represents the European waste management industry. Its members are national waste management associations, such as ESA (formerly the UK National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors).

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UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH ISLES

Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Information about environmental protection, farming, fisheries, sustainable development and wildlife and countryside from UK Government.

Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) The professional body representing professionals and individuals working in the waste management industry.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LINKS

The British Society of Soil Science and the

Institute of Professional Soil Scientists are the academic and professional organisations representing UK based soil scientists. Currently no UK University provides undergraduate soil science courses.

Society for the Environment. The UK professional body of Chartered Environmentalists (CEnv). Awarded a Royal Charter on 17 September 2004, and comprising a number of constituent scientific bodies, the Society for the Environment (SocEnv) currently (late 2005)represents about 2000 Chartered members with significant academic qualifications and experience in environmental matters.

Soil Science Personal page of soil scientist Peter Doyle with links to comprehensive literature review on chemistry of heavy metals in soil and other articles on soil.


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