waste and recycling

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• - Supports, informs and represents all those in the community working on recycling, waste minimisation and community solutions to sustainable waste management.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Coalition of U.S. organizations committed to maximizing recycling to achieve benefits of resource conservation, solid waste reduction, environmental protection, energy conservation and social and economic development.
  
• - How Seattle-area housing coop uses just 2 trash cans with 5 families.
  
• - A nonprofit organization which battles littering and illegal trash dumping through community cleanups, education, increased enforcement, and promoting specialty recycling programs.
  
• - 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.
  
• - NYSAR3 is the State Association that Represents New York State's Recycling Community.
  
• - An informational recylcing site that uses QuickTime videos to educate about recycling issues.
  
• - This site promotes the concept of keeping our planet clean by not littering.
  
• - Professional paper at Carnegie Mellon about recycling that old computer. [Adobe Acrobat Reader required.]
  
• - A site on the toxic elements in computer screens.
  
• - Promotes environmentally safe, responsible, and cost-effective management of electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life or no longer meets the needs of its original owners.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information on fund raising opportunities which are free, easy to run and perpetual. Environmental aspects of the program make promotion simple and allow for total community participation.
  
• - SWALCO handles aspects of solid waste planning and management for Lake County, Illinois. Also has technical assistance programs, public information and education programs and targeted projects.
  
• - San Francisco's only source for reusable and recycled building material. Also allows donations of tax deductable material from buildings and demolitions.
  
• - Encourages existing organisations to develop new products and services using or producing recycled materials, thereby increasing the recycling of waste in Merseyside, England.
  
• - Covers environmental/waste issues in Australia, and promotes recycling of cardboard, and the use of recycled cartonboard for packaging.
  
• - A way to give kids a chance to recycle something of their very own.
  
• - Information on waste reduction programs, resources, and contacts. Created by Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality's Solid Waste Policy and Program.
  
• - Raises money for extra resources for the school as well as helping to conserve our planets natural resources.
  
• - 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.
  
• - British site that tells you where your nearest recycling facility is and gives important recycling information for business, schools and consumers.
  
• - Lists several suggestions to reduce waste.
  
• - Information, publications and advice on waste reduction, reuse and recycling. Based in the United Kingdom.
  
• - Report on the national state of recycling in the US on the eve of Earth Day, 2002.
  
• - Teaches the everyday essentials in a light and fun way, from a Canadian youth's point-of-view.
  
• - 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]
  
• - Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction and prevention. Based in Australia.
  
• - Information for different Chicago recycling programs. Also, can link to litter related information on site.
  
• - Mailing lists where people give away things that they no longer need instead of throwing them away. Includes FAQ, resources, and links to mailing lists.
  
• - Information about waste and waste management in Europe enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed.
  
• - Presents free accessible articles, magazines, events and technological solutions for recycling.
  
• - Provides information on recycling centers, how to recycle, pollution prevention and how help protect the environment.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information about the center, it's educational and community programs, it's research, and center news. Tours conducted of working landfill, nature trail available.
  
• - Promotes recycling and waste prevention while serving our members through information exchange, education, networking, and advocacy.
  
• - The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) has teamed up with nonprofit PA CleanWays to remove illegally dumped trash in Pennsylvania's state forests and parks.
  
• - Information and tools to help local governments reduce, reuse, recycle and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills.
  
• - Provides information on waste to energy technology and integrated waste management solutions.
  
• - What happens to garbage and why recycling is important. Includes a game and other activities.
  
• - The M.E.T. coordinates and encourages recycling efforts in the metropolitan Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
  
• - Information and education on recycling in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area in the UK.