Product Stewardship

• Global Product Stewardship: EHS Policy and Regulation impacting Products from Nanomaterials to Aircraft. Global Product Stewardship Report. February, 2011.
• CalRecycle Product Stewardship Legislation Checklist. October, 2010.
• Canada-Wide Action Plan - Key Elements of EPR (Pg 15). October, 2009.
• County of Santa Clara - Hazardous Materials Program. The Road to Product Stewardship: Local Governments as Catalysts. October 2009
• Canadian Council of Ministers for the Environment. A Canada-Wide Action Plan for Sustainable Packaging. October 2009.
• Northwest Product Stewardship Council. Product Stewardship in Canada. October 2009.
• Prechards. Product Stewardship in North America. June 2009
• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Discussion Document: Towards a Proposed Canada-Wide Action Plan for Extended Producer Responsibility. February, 2009.
• ASTSWMO Product Stewardship Framework Policy Document- Dec 2009
• Environmental Finance. From Cradle to Grave. July, 2008.
• Quebec Office of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) - Current status, challenges, and perspectives. March, 2008.
• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. 2008. Extended Producer Responsibility: Product Evaluation Tool - User Guidance.
• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Extended Producer Responsibility: Evaluation Tool (Excel Table). 2008
• Scott Cassel; Chapter 7, in "Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste” edited by Amy D. Cabaniss, 2008. Product Stewardship: Shared Responsibility for Managing HHW
• Evaluation Tool for EPR Programs. Thomas Lindhqvist and Chris van Rossem. IIIEE, Lund University. 2005
• Commission of European Communities. Communication from the Commission: Towards a Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste. May, 2003.
• IIEE Reports. EPR Programs: Individual vs. Collective Responsibility. 2003.
• British Columbia Ministry of Environment. Product Stewardship in B.C. No date given.
• Delft University of Technology. Applying Environmental Value Chain Analysis to Product Take-Back Systems. No date given.
• John Ehrenfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part IV, Sustainability and Enterprise: An Inside View of the Corporation. No date given.
• Legislative Components for Product Stewardship

Extended Producer Responsibility

• Development of Guidance on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
• Extended Producer Responsibility. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Michael Toffel, Antoinette Stein, and Katharine Lee. "Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies”. Working Paper 09-026. Harvard Business School. 2008.
• "Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility Programmes: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Mar. 2005.
• Macauley, Palmer, Shih, Cline, Holsinger. "Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits of Disposal Options for End-of-Life Electronic Equipment: The Case of Used Computer Monitors—Appendix E: Using Tradable Recycling Credits to Implement Producer Take-Back for CRTs”. Resources for the Future. 2001.

Sustainability

• The Sustainable Economy. The Harvard Business Review, October 2011.
• Product Stewardship and Global Warming. March 2008.
• Macauley, Palmer, Shih, Cline, Holsinger. "Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits of Disposal Options for End-of-Life Electronic Equipment: The Case of Used Computer Monitors—Appendix E: Using Tradable Recycling Credits to Implement Producer Take-Back for CRTs”. Resources for the Future. 2001.

Hazardous Waste / Solid Waste

• The Journal for Municipal Solid Waste Professionals. HHW: We've Come a Long Way...Maybe. September-October 2010.
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment. From Waste to Worth: The Role of Waste Diversion in the Green Economy - Minister's Report on the Waste Diversion Act 2002 Review. October 2009.
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Tackling Ontario's Waste. October 2009.
• University of Texas. Summary of Research on Mercury Emissions from Municipal Landfills. February, 2009.
• Scott Cassel; Chapter 7, in "Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste” edited by Amy D. Cabaniss, 2008. Product Stewardship: Shared Responsibility for Managing HHW
• Don Fullerton and Amy Raub. "Addressing the Economics of Waste—Chapter 3: Economic Analysis of Solid Waste Management Policies.” OECD. pp 39-56. 2004.
• European Commission. Heavy Metals in Waste. February, 2000.
• University of Florida/ Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection. Recommended Management Practices for the Removal of Hazardous Materials from Buildings Prior to Demolition. December, 1999.

Recycling

• "Recycling and Composting Emissions Protocol For Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Emissions Reductions Associated with Community Level Recycling and Composting." International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). April 2012.
• "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Recycling and Composting.” US EPA. May 2011.
• "Considerations for Promoting Environmentally Sound Reuse and Recycling”. GAO-10-626, Jul 12, 2010.
• "Resource Conservation." US EPA. November 19, 2012.

Design for Environment

• Sameer Kumar and Valora Putnam. "Cradle to cradle: Reverse logistics strategies and opportunities across three industry sectors”. International Journal of Production Economics 115 (2008).
• Advance Program, Going Green EcoDesign 2001, 2nd International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing. November, 2001.
• IIIEE Reports. Environmental Product Information Flow. September, 2001
• Catherine Rose (Dissertation, Stanford University). Design for Environment: A Method for Formulating End-of-Life Strategies.
• November, 2000.
• Stanford University. Product Characteristics and their Relationship to End-of-Life Strategies. 1998.
• Younchai Heo (Master’s Thesis, Ajou University) Methodology for Prioritizing DfE Strategies Based on LCA and AHP. February, 2001.

Life Cycle Assessment

• Towards a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Making informed choices on products. United Nations Environment Programme. 2011.
• Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products. United Nations Environment Programme, 2009.
• Cleaner Electronics Research Group, Brunel University. Environmental Assessment of Electronic Products Using LCA and Ecological Footprint. September, 2001.
• Center for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems. Practical Strategies for Acquiring Life Cycle Inventory Data in the Electronics Industry. 1999.
• Center for Environmental Analysis. A Tool for Sustainable Integrated MSW Management.