Organizations:

Selection of organizations within Cape Breton aimed at helping residents understand their waste.

• Cape Breton Regional Municipality: Solid Waste Management Information

• Victoria County: Waste Management Services

• Inverness County: Sort It Out! Solid Waste Information

• Richmond County: Recycling & Composting

• Divert NS

Curriculum materials:

• Divert NS 

• Nat Geo Kids

• Clean Foundation, Eddie’s Litterless Quest

• Plastic Oceans Canada

Websites:

Links to helpful sites to understand the role of recycling, plastic alternatives, composting, and the circular economy

• Biobag USA

• Marketplace (CBC, 2019) documentary

• PIP 360

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation

• Compost Council of Canada

• Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)

Reports:

Literature on plastics and food waste by international researchers and governments

• Perennia’s Fact Sheet

• “Breaking the Wave” by PEW and SystemIQ

• “Less food loss and waste, less packaging waste” by National Zero Waste Council

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability: A call for action”

• Government of Canada, “Guidance for selecting alternatives to the single-use plastics in the proposed single-use plastics prohibition regulations”