The Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project – The 'Energy' (E) Handouts

E.7. Resources and Waste

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Sheet no.7 in the Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project's 'Energy' series of handouts looks at Resources and Waste – Addressing Consumption and Waste.

Waste and recycling is an energy issue: It takes energy to create the resources we routinely buy and dispose of every day. If we handle waste badly it's not just a source of pollution and nuisance, it's a waste of energy and resources. We have to mange waste according its value as a resource, and a sink of energy that must be avoided, not merely as a "problem" that we have to get rid of.

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Background information/links

Links:

Communities Against Toxics – http://www.communities-against-toxics.org.uk/
Community Recycling Network – http://www.crn.org.uk/
Community Recycling Network Wales – http://www.cylch.org/
Green Alliance – http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/
The Wastebook – http://www.wastebook.org/
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) – http://www.wrap.org.uk/
Zero Waste New Zealand – http://www.zerowaste.co.nz/
The Free Range Energy Beyond Oil Project – http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/
PowerSwitch – http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/
The Energy Bulletin – http://www.energybulletin.net/
The Community Solution – http://www.communitysolution.org/
The Post Carbon Institute – http://www.postcarbon.org/
Global Public Media – http://www.globalpublicmedia.org/
Richard Heinberg (The Museletter) – http://www.richardheinberg.com/
Energy Returned on Energy Invested – http://eroei.com/