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Includes links to sites dealing with the issues surrounding waste, waste disposal, and recycling.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/
Information and tools to help consumers, businesses, and local governments reduce, reuse, recycle and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills.
http://www.carymoor.org.uk/
Information about the center, its educational and community programs, its research, and center news. Tours conducted of working landfill, nature trail available.
http://csmonitor.com/2002/0417/p12s01-lihc.html
Report on the national state of recycling in the US on the eve of Earth Day, 2002.
http://www.communitychange.com.au/
Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction and prevention. Based in Australia.
http://earth911.com/
Public/private partnership to provide community-specific environmental information as well as general advice related to preventing environmental problems that would otherwise have to be remedied at a later date.
http://www.freecycle.org/
Network to promote waste reduction and help save landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to recycle/ give away unwanted items.
http://www.grrn.org/
Dedicated to environmental stewardship and achieving a sustainable economy by eliminating waste and reusing, recycling and composting resources. Advocates an end to corporate subsidies for waste, hopes to create new jobs from discarded materials.
http://www.wte.org/
Provides information on waste to energy technology and integrated waste management solutions.
http://www.kab.org/
A non-profit organization whose network of local, statewide and international affiliate programs educate individuals about litter prevention and ways to reduce, reuse, recycle and properly manage waste materials.
http://www.keeppabeautiful.org/
A nonprofit organization which battles littering and illegal trash dumping through community cleanups, education, increased enforcement, and promoting specialty recycling programs.
http://www.nysar3.org/
NYSAR3 is the State Association that Represents New York State's Recycling Community.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4615730
Discussion: Can Americans learn to live with less packaging, and how much of the recyclable materials used are actually being recycled? [16:56 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.plasticfilmrecycling.org/
Provides information to the general public, municipalities, and businesses about how to recycle post-consumer and post-commercial plastic bags and film. Includes drop-off directory, FAQ, and how to set up a collection program or campaign.
http://www.quinterecycling.org/
Offering waste reduction programs for the Quinte area in southern Ontario, this is an award-winning program achieving 63% reduction in waste that includes blue box recycling, composting, household hazardous waste collection.
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/
What happens to garbage and why recycling is important. Includes a game and other activities.
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/
British site that tells you where your nearest recycling facility is and gives important recycling information for business, schools and consumers.
http://www.recap.co.uk/
Information and education on recycling in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area in the UK.
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/
News on fiber/paper, plastics, ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, electronic scrap and additional secondary commodities for the recycling and solid waste industry.
http://www.re-cycle.org/
A UK charity which sends old bicycles to poor countries such as Haiti and South Africa and trains people how to repair and maintain the bikes.
http://www.stoplittering.com/
This site promotes the concept of keeping our planet clean by not littering.
http://www.metrecycle.com/
The M.E.T. coordinates and encourages recycling efforts in the metropolitan Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/
Information, publications and advice on waste reduction, reuse and recycling. Based in the United Kingdom.
http://www.whatiswaste.com/
Ongoing online documentary series about people repurposing waste.
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