Includes links to sites dealing with the issues surrounding waste, waste disposal, and recycling.
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- Recycling Today News on fiber/paper, plastics, ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, electronic scrap and additional secondary commodities for the recycling and solid waste industry.
- Recycle City What happens to garbage and why recycling is important. Includes a game and other activities.
- Re~Cycle 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.
- Waste Watch Information, publications and advice on waste reduction, reuse and recycling. Based in the United Kingdom.
- Keep America Beautiful 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.
- The Metropolitan Environmental Trust The M.E.T. coordinates and encourages recycling efforts in the metropolitan Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
- Earth 911 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.
- Freecycle 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.
- GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) 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.
- Quinte Waste Solutions 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.
- Integrated Waste Services Association Provides information on waste to energy technology and integrated waste management solutions.
- Recycle-more British site that tells you where your nearest recycling facility is and gives important recycling information for business, schools and consumers.
- Stop Littering This site promotes the concept of keeping our planet clean by not littering.
- New York State Association for Reduction Reuse and Recycling NYSAR3 is the State Association that Represents New York State's Recycling Community.
- Carymoor Environmental Centre Information about the center, its educational and community programs, its research, and center news. Tours conducted of working landfill, nature trail available.
- Recycling in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Information and education on recycling in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area in the UK.
- Christian Science Monitor - A Mixed Bag of Community Recycling Report on the national state of recycling in the US on the eve of Earth Day, 2002.
- Community Change Party Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction and prevention. Based in Australia.
- NPR Science Friday : A Question on Earth Day: Paper, Plastic or Neither? 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]
- What is Waste? Ongoing online documentary series about people repurposing waste.
- CalRecycle Information and tools to help consumers, businesses, and local governments reduce, reuse, recycle and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills.
- 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.
- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful A nonprofit organization which battles littering and illegal trash dumping through community cleanups, education, increased enforcement, and promoting specialty recycling programs.