Recycling

• Advocacy

• Arts, Crafts and Hobbies

• Batteries

• Cell Phones

• Clothing and Textiles

• Composting

• Databases

• Donations/Acquisitions

• Electronics

• Exchanges

• Hazardous Materials

• Information

• Junk Mail

• LandFills

• Life Cycling

• Lightbulbs

• News/Journals

• Organizations

• Paper

• Pay as you Throw

• Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products

• Plastics

• Reports

• Reuse

• Toilet Paper

• Trash

• Vehicles

• Videos

• Water Filters

Show All

* 1 recycled tin can saves enough energy to power a television for 3 hours. * 1 recycled glass bottle saves enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. * 1 recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60-watt bulb for 3 hours. * 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials. www.greenenergycouncil.com/recycle_incentive.htm
Advocacy:
www.nrc-recycle.org	National Recycling Coalition is a national non-profit advocacy group with members that span all aspects of waste reduction, reuse and recycling in North America.''
www.grrn.org	Grass Roots Recycling Network is calling for Zero Waste in the US and promoting the message that we must go beyond recycling.”
Arts, Crafts and Hobbies:
www.instructables.com	Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it.  Sections on Arts and Crafts reuse of items and instructions to make-your-own 'anything'. Green section from what to do with those plastic bags to building a solar panel.
lifehacker.com	Lifehacker, an award-winning, daily blog that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you get things done smarter and more efficiently.
tipnut.com	Tipnut- household tips, craft patterns & projects, recipes, kitchen & cooking tips, handy reference material. Tips like: 10 Homemade Laundry Soap Detergent Recipes.
greenupgrader.com	Green Upgrader- options that can help you live a Greener life.
www.goddessofgarbage.com	Goddess of Garbage- an award-winning interior designer who has received national recognition for using recycled materials and re-use items to create home and office furniture and accessories. See her ideas here.
www.kid-at-art.com	Kids at Art Imagination Factory,  teaches children and their caregivers creative ways to recycle by making art. The lessons and activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, papier-mache, marbling, and crafts.
Batteries:
www.rbrc.org	Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) is a non-profit, public service organization dedicated to rechargeable battery recycling. Call2Recycle program- enter your zip to find out where to recycle your rechargeable batteries.
Bottle Bill:
www.bottlebill.org	Container Recycling Institute's Bottle Bill Toolkit.
Cell Phones:
earth911.com	Earth 911. Cell Phone Recycling Guide.
www.recellular.com	ReCellular. Cell Phone Recycling and Wireless Recycling Donate Your Cell Phones or Start a Donation Program. Based in Dexter, Michigan- and the world's largest recycler and reseller of used cellular phones and accessories.
www.collectivegood.com	CollectiveGood creates financially productive partnerships with charities and companies to ensure that the benefits of mobile phones are maximized, and their environmental impact is minimized. Pioneered the concept of providing marketing, operations and logistics support to charities and the private sector to create innovative used mobile phone collection and reuse campaigns.
www.rbrc.org	Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) is a non-profit, public service organization dedicated to rechargeable battery recycling. Call2Recycle program- enter your zip to find out where to recycle your rechargeable batteries and used cell phones.
recyclemycellphone.org	EarthWorks Cell Phone Recycling Report Card. Recycle My Cell Phone campaign is challenging the wireless industry to dramatically improve the current state of cell phone recycling. PDF.
informinc.org.pdf	The Secret Life of Cell Phones. Inform inc. Information fact sheet and sourcebook.
Certifiers: see Ratings-Labels page...
www.e-stewards.org	e-Stewards Certification- assures that those with seal meet the world’s most responsible environmental and social justice criteria for electronics recyclering. These criteria include no toxic e-waste dumped in landfills or incinerators, no exported to developing countries, no sending to prison labor operations and no release of private data.
Clothing and Textiles:
earth911.com	Earth 911. Clothing and Textile Recycling Guide.
Composting:
www.epa.gov	EPA's Composting Information.
www.jgpress.com/biocycle.htm	BioCycle magazine on composting and organics recycling. BioCycle shows you how to turn organic residuals — woody materials, yard trimmings, municipal solid waste, food residuals, biosolids, manure and other feedstocks into value-added products.
www.bpiworld.org	Biodegradable Products Institute compostable label program. Educates manufacturers, legislators and consumers about the importance of scientifically based standards for compostable materials which biodegrade in large composting facilities. Lots of info here..plus lists Biodegradable product manufacyurers. ***
waste.environmental-expert.com	Environmental Expert an online marketplace, but also a source for industry-related information and resources: publications, events, articles, case studies & news.
2 billion disposable razors end up in U.S. landfills each year.
Databases:
earth911.com	Earth 911-recycling database lists over 100,000 recycling locations across the country.
Donations/Acquisitions:
www.freecycle.org	Freecycle Network is made up of 4,725 groups with 6,615,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
www.throwplace.com	Throwplace is a site where global users may list goods they wish to give away to others. Registered Charities, Businesses or Individuals are able to search the site and make requests for items of interest. Items listed on Throwplace are not for sale—they are to be donated.
Electronics:
www.epa.gov	EPA's eCycling Portal.
earth911.com	Earth 911. Electronics Recycling Guide. Find a re-cycler near ypu.
www.e-stewards.org	Local e-Stewards. List of companies that have signed the Electronic Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship- the most rigorous criteria for sustainable and socially just electronics recycling.
www.yourenew.com	Your Renew. A easy platform to sell your electronics or recycle rather than throw them away.
www.electronicstakeback.com	Electronics Takeback Coalition. List of which Manufacturers Take Back Their Products.
Electronics Waste at Offices:
www.e-stewards.org	Local e-Stewards. List of companies that have signed the Electronic Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship- the most rigorous criteria for sustainable and socially just electronics recycling. Check list for a company close to you. ***
www.cascade-assets.com	Cascade Asset Management protects customer equipment with a secure chain of custody and by using the latest technology to ensure zero data compromise. Resells equipment when possible and returns rebates back to the customer.  Cascade operates green facilities, is an advocate for environmental sustainability, and handles customer equipment in the most environmentally responsible way. Processing Centers: Wisconsin and Indiana. Technical Facilities: Delaware, Florida, Texas, Colorado, California, and Washington.
Exchanges: see products page for product swaps and recycled goods...
www.recycle.net	Recycler's World-  trade scrap & waste materials. A membership based worldwide information exchange for those companies and individuals who Buy/Sell/Trade commodities, materials, goods and services relevant to this industry. Users (non-members) may post up to 5 Buy / Sell / Trade listings every 30 days.
Glass:
www.gpi.org	Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) serves as the voice for the glass container industry in Washington, D.C., and across the country. GPI serves its member companies through legislative, public relations, promotional and technical activities.
Hazardous Materials:
earth911.com	Earth 911. Hazardous Materials Recycling Guide.
Information:
www.epa.gov/epawaste	EPA's Resource Conservation Portal.
earth911.com	Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship.
www.raymond.com	Raymond Communications informs about recycling laws and policies around the world.
www.amazon.com	Choose to Reuse: An Encyclopedia of Services, Businesses, Tools & Charitable Programs That Foster Reuse (Paperback) by Nikki & David Goldbeck. Ceres Press; March 1995.  An alphabetical directory of more than 2,000 products, services, and organizations that facilitate the reusing of goods. Entries usually include a brief overview of the item and its impact on the environment.
www.wastehelper.com	Waste Helper- waste management directory and wastes resource site. Hundreds of pages, with hundreds of waste links organized in a way to help you review the information you're seeking fast.
Junk Mail:
donotmail.org	Do Not Mail is collecting names on a petition (50,000 and counting) to show our government and the direct mail industry that we want a national registry to give us an easy and comprehensive way to opt out of junk mail. We’re also supporting state initiatives that will establish Do Not Mail registries for their citizens. Until we get a national registry, you can use our opt-out tool to reduce your junk mail. While this won’t stop all your junk mail, it’s a good start.''
catalogchoice.org	Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Catalog Choice is a sponsored project of the Ecology Center.
www.stopjunk.com	Stop the Junk Mail Kit researched and developed by a former junk mail copywriter.  Send your pre-addressed "Remove My Name" postcards & contact other companies with your "Special All-Purpose Form."
www.dmachoice.org	DMAchoice is an online tool developed by the Direct Marketing Association to help you manage your mail. This site is part of a larger program designed to respond to consumers' concerns over the amount of mail they receive. For the purposes of this site, direct mail is divided into four categories: Credit Offers, Catalogs, Magazine Offers and Other Mail Offers. You can request to start or stop receiving mail from individual companies within each category or from an entire category at once.
Landfills:
waste.environmental-expert.com	Environmental Expert an online marketplace, but also a source for industry-related information and resources, like publications, events, articles, case studies & news.
www.sfb477.tu-bs.de	"Lifetime prediction and phenomena in landfills" Prof. Dr. Dinkler  Institut für Statik, Denmark.
publications.environment-agency.gov.uk	"Investigation of the Composition and Emissions of Trace Components in Landfill Gas" UK Environment Agency. PDF.
en.wikipedia.org	Tucson Garbage Project info.
Life Cycling:    see Business product greening as well...
lcinitiative.unep.fr	International Life Cycle Partnership for a sustainable world. UNEP's Life Cycle Initiative aims to develop and disseminate practical tools for evaluating the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs associated with products and services over their entire life cycle to achieve sustainable development.
www.life-cycle.org	Life Cycle Assesment- a portal to the various LCA related resources on the web. For-Academic Institutions conducting LCA research, Companies using LCA in real world applications, Conference activities where people are meeting and discussing LCA related topics, Job postings, Resources to conduct or commission an LCA.
Lightbulbs:
earth911.com	Earth 911. Lightbulb Recycling Guide.
www.sylvania.com/Recycle	Sylvania provides an easy way to recycle all your lamps and ballasts - for all brands of products. Consumers, communities and businesses can order pre-labeled recycling kits to recycle small and large quantities of CFLs and other light bulbs.
www.homedepot.com	Home Depot will take back your used CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs).
News/Journals:
www.resource-recycling.com	Resource Recycling. North America's Recycling and Composting Journal to the Trade.. FEE.
www.sustainableindustries.com	Sustainable Industries. Recycling News.
waste.environmental-expert.com	Environmental Expert an online marketplace, but also a source for industry-related information and resources, like publications, events, articles, case studies & news. Waste and Recycling News page.
www.sciencedaily.com	ScienceDaily- top science news stories from the world's leading universities and research organizations. Recycling and Waste news.
Organizations:
www.container-recycling.org	Container Recycling Institute, a nonprofit organization, founded in 1991, that studies and promotes policies and programs that increase recovery and recycling of beverage containers and packaging waste.
earth911.org	Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship.
Paper:
Pay as you Throw
www.epa.gov/epawaste	EPA's info on pay-as-you-throw programs (also known as unit pricing or variable-rate pricing), residents are charged for the collection of municipal solid waste—ordinary household trash— based on the amount they throw away.
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)
epa.gov/ppcp	EPA's Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) info. Plus, How do I properly dispose of unwanted pharmaceuticals?
www.nanotechproject.org	"Where Does the Nano Go? End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies" Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, July 2007.
Plastics:
www.preserveproducts.com	Preserve's Gimme 5 program, recycle your #5 plastics—a kind of plastic that many towns and cities won’t recycle. Preserve transforms yogurt cups into toothbrushes or razors and take-out containers into cutting boards or storage containers—and a lot of other products for your bathroom, table, and kitchen. Drop off your #5s at many Whole Foods and other locations or mail them to Preserve- see how here...
www.plasticsrecycling.org	Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers is the national trade association representing companies who acquire, reprocess and sell the output of more than 90 percent of the post-consumer plastic processing capacity in North America. Its membership includes independent recycling companies of all sizes, processing numerous resins. APR strongly advocates the recycling of all post-consumer plastic packaging.
www.resource-recycling.com	Plastics Recycling Update newsletter-data on export demand, reports on corporate developments of plastics recycling processors and end markets, news on legislative activities throughout North America, and details of technology initiatives. Fee.
www.napcor.com	National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), is the trade association for the PET plastic industry in the United States and Canada. PET Recycling Info.
www.vikoz.com	Vikoz Enterprises Inc is a full service plastic recycler offering nationwide services. Specializes in post commercial and post industrial accounts. Recycles all plastic and non ferrous metals. Also purchases any and all plastic scrap, regrind and virgin resin. Also specializes in used plastic pallets, bins, totes and boxes.
Reports:
www.resource-recycling.com	Resource Recycling. Economic recovery proposals directly affecting recycling. Repairing recycling:Seven ways the stimulus package affects your recycling business or program. 2009. PDF. ***
Reuse:
www.terracycle.net/brigades	TerraCycle will pay you for juice boxes, cookie and energy bar wrappers, potato chip bags, etc.  You get free shipping boxes delivered to your door.
www.yourenew.com	Your Renew. A easy platform to sell your electronics or recycle rather than throw them away.
Toilet Paper:
greenpeace.org	GreenPeace. Toilet Paper, Paper Towel, Napkin and Tissue Buying Guide.  Important !  Marcal is a good choice as well.
Trash:
en.wikipedia.org	Tucson Garbage Project info.
Vehicles:
earth911.com	Earth 911. Automotive Recycling Guide.
Videos:
www.recyclingsuperguide.com	Recycling Super Guide- videos worth watching for recycling information.
www.ted.com	Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas. TED Video. Feb 2009.  ***
Water Filters:
www.preserveproducts.com	Recycle your Brita® filter. Preserve and Brita have teamed up to collect and recycle Brita® pitcher filters. Preserve transforms the recycled plastic from the filters into new Preserve products. See site to find a drop-off location or mailing instructions...
In the U.S. we throw out about 290 million tires every year.