Contributors

The duck is just a duck. It fell off a container ship in 1992. (See World's Largest Rubbish Dump...Pacific Ocean). These are its chronicles as it searches for the meaning of waste. Since it is just a duck paddling around the world, it may occassionally need some help. It therefore welcomes any contributions, corrections or clarifications which might help it on its journey.....

Anastasia Joyce (BA Communications University of Technology Sydney) is a journalist and former exporter of rural produce to China. At the age of nine her primary school teacher, Mr Davies, introduced the entire school (all 22 pupils) to the idea of planned obsolescence and planned waste. This concept stayed with her and many years later met up with surprising requests from Chinese buyers wanting to buy commodities such as "sheep gall stones" and "bulls testicles". Often wondering whether she was wasting her life she decided to write down all the information she had collected on waste to see if her life might have any merit. And so began her waste collection.

Stavros Mouslopoulos is a theoretical particle physicist. He has a BA in Physics from the University of Ioannina. A PhD in Theoretical Physics Oxford University and was a visiting scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Theoretical Physics Group and University of California, Berkely.

David Hickling was once an artist. Now he makes websites using Open Source software at elixa website design. Along the way he earned a B.A. in Visual Arts and a B.A.(Hons) in Philosophy. This involved reading lots of Heidegger. Oddly enough, he wants to read some more, sometime.

Tim Hanlin is Managing Director and co-founder of Australian Climate Exchange (ACX), Australia's first carbon trading exchange. Prior to establishing ACX, he was the Commercial - Investment Manager for Woodside Petroleum's sustainable energy company, Metasource. Tim is also a former architect and a regular speaker on emissions trading and climate change.

Chris McErlean is a lecturer in the school of Chemistry, University of Sydney. He gained a B.Sc and Ph.D from the University of Queensland. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and University of Nottingham.