GENERAL RECYCLING INFORMATION

Earth's 911
www.1800Cleanup.org

This comprehensive and well-designed site offers recycling, pollution prevention and environmental information personalized by zip code. Visitors can learn about recycling sites, household hazardous waste and pesticides, environmental events and education, energy conservation and much more for their local area.

The Rotten Truth (About Garbage)
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm

This amazing on-line Smithsonian exhibit in four sections takes an in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding municipal solid waste. What Is Garbage? looks at how we define garbage, and why it consists of more than what we throw away. There's No "Away" explores how burying, burning, and recycling garbage doesn't really get rid of it, and that reducing what we use is the only real solution to the garbage problem. Nature Recycles shows how the natural process of decay makes new life possible by recycling the limited number of nutrients present in the environment. Finally, Making Choices provides some helpful hints on how we can all create less garbage.

Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
www.obviously.com/recycle

This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life. The site offers The World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling Guide, guides to recycling common materials and hard-to-recycle materials and steps to reduce unwanted mail.

Environmental Defense Recycling Information
Anti-Recycling Myths

This page is full of interesting information about recycling, such as guides to buying products with less waste to save money and the environment, an environmentally friendly answer to the age old paper or plastic dilemma, and comparisons of recycling, landfilling and incineration. The site also contains facts on plastic, glass and metal recycling, answers to criticism of recycling, and Recycling World, which offers practical and creative ideas for recycling.

Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN)
http://www.grrn.org/

"The Grassroots Recycling Network is a North American network of recycling and community-based activists who advocate policies and practices to achieve zero waste, to end corporate welfare for waste, and to create sustainable jobs from discards. We aim to reverse unsustainable practices and policies by building effective coalitions and partnerships for Zero Waste policies based on government and corporate accountability for waste. " GRRN's website has information on their campaigns, an extensive list of resources, and information about a listserv focusing on strategies to advance sustainable resource policies. Check out their amazing reference library ( http://grn.com/library/library.htm) for links about public information and grants, sources of capital, laws and regulations, educational recycling resources, regional recycling resources, composting and the Earth, U.S. EPA links, recycling organizations and publications in the world, success stories from schools and community groups, and much much more.

EPA Recycling Information
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/recycle.htm

This website offers an overview of recycling, details of the recycling process, facts and figures about recycling, information about recycling opportunities for government, industry, organizations, small businesses, and households and links to organizations that deal with plastic, glass, paper and other recyclable materials.

EPA Office of Solid Waste -- Publications for Concerned Citizens
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/citizens.htm#home

This extensive list of publications provides basic facts about how waste is created and managed and how citizens can reduce, reuse, and recycle materials and consequently decrease the amount and toxicity of the waste produced in and around their homes. For example, publications cover how to deal with used motor oil, compost yard waste, and household hazardous waste. Publications also let visitors learn about waste management programs and opportunities to help you get involved and make a difference in your community, such as donating food to the needy, investigating green advertising claims, establishing recycling collection programs and planning and conducting environmentally aware meetings and events.

(The) Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/catbook/index.htm

Describes how consumers can reduce their garbage by making environmentally aware decisions about the products and packaging they purchase, use, and ultimately dispose of. Suggestions follow four basic principles: reduce, reuse, recycle, and respond.

EPA Office of Solid Waste
http://www.epa.gov/osw/

This web site offers extensive information and resources about municipal solid waste, such as state data, composting, climate change, extended product responsibility, jobs through recycling, landfills, household hazardous waste, pay as you throw programs, source reduction, etc. This page includes a link to a web page about WasteWise, a free, voluntary, flexible EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste therefore benefiting their bottom line and the environment.

The Cygnus Group
http://cygnus-group.com/

The Cygnus Group Web site is designed to provide individuals and organizations with information regarding the most efficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources, focusing on source reduction and reuse rather than just recycling. The site offers current and back copies of The ULS (Use Less Stuff) Report, information about ULS Day, 42 Ways to Trim Your Holiday Wasteline, information on packaging, EPA data on waste prevention and a comprehensive database of related resources.

Recycler's World
http://www.recycle.net/index.html

This site is a world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used & surplus items or materials. There is also a calendar of events, a listing of associations, and a publications list.

Zero Waste America
http://www.zerowasteamerica.org

This web site advocates zero waste, the recycling of all materials back into nature or the marketplace in a manner that protects human health and the environment. Visitors can learn about disposal and recycling, related legislation and ways to take action.

America Recycles Day (ARD)
http://www.americarecyclesday.org

ARD is a national grassroots campaign dedicated to increasing the purchase of recycled content products and recycling throughout America.

National Recycling Coalition
http://www.nrc-recycle.org

NRC is a not for profit organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of recycling, source reduction, composting, and reuse by providing technical information, education, training, outreach and advocacy services to its members in order to conserve resources and benefit the environment. The web site offers information about NRC members, programs, partnerships and publications.

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS

Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News
http://www.planetark.com

This site offers "the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net" with stories about daily environmental news from around the world and an archive of past issues that can be searched by keyword and subject.

CITY AND STATE SPECIFIC RECYCLING INFORMATION

City of Austin Solid Waste Services
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws

This site offers general information about the services and programs of solid waste services and specific details about the city's residential and commercial garbage and recycling services.

Recycling Alliance of Texas
http://www.recycletx.com

The Recycling Alliance of Texas promotes waste reduction through public policy, advocacy, professional development and public education in order to conserve finite natural resources and protect and enhance our natural environment within a sustainable framework. The web site offers information about each of RAT's four teams: Coalition Development, Professional Development, Public Education and Policy.

Recycle Texas Online
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/exec/sbea/rtol/index.html

Recycle Texas Online is an online database provided by Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission that contains information on recycling businesses in Texas and the specific recyclable materials they handle. Recycle Texas Online can help sellers of recovered materials find information on collectors, processors, brokers, manufacturers, and composters who are located in and/or buy from your region of the state and can help purchasers of recyclable material identify those companies that sell a specific material in your geographic region.

INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC RECYCLABLES

The Steel Recycling Institute
http://www.recycle-steel.org

"The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) is an industry association that promotes and sustains the recycling of all steel products. The SRI educates the solid waste industry, government, business and ultimately the consumer about the benefits of steel's infinite recycling cycle." The site offers information about steel and how it is recyclable in cans, cars, appliances, construction material and an online database that lets users find out where they can recycle their steel. The site also has extensive educational materials for early childhood through high school, press releases, and publications explaining all about America's number 1 recycled material.

AnotheR BytE, Inc.
http://www.recycles.org/

Another Byte is a not-for-profit US IRS tax-exempt computer refurbishment and redistribution organization with a world wide focus toward bridging the Digital Divide. Their web site also offers information, a directory and an email discussion group about computer recycling.

National Office Paper Recycling Project's Office Paper Recycling Guide
es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/recypapr.html

This guide to office recycling is intended to provide information on the importance of buying recycled products and collecting recyclable office waste paper.

Conservatree
http://www.conservatree.com/

This site provides information on recycled, tree-free, and chlorine printing ad writing papers.

ReThink Paper
http://www.rethinkpaper.org

ReThink Paper is working to chart a precise course of action towards the solutions for wood use reduction. As the pulp and paper industry is the largest single industrial wood consumer in the US and in the world, it is important to reduce paper consumption and use alternative fiber pulps. Unless demand shifts to other products and other fibers, we will live on a planet without forests and the biological controls it offers us daily such as: flood control, carbon sinks, oxygen, water, and clean air to breath.

RECYCLING INFORMATION FOR KIDS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS

Recycle City
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity

This nifty web site tells the story of Recycle City, formerly Dumptown, a town where residents learned to recycle. The site offers games, activities and facts to help kids learn about reducing waste through the three Rs.

Roscoe's Recycle Room
http://www.recycleroom.org

ROSCOE (Recycle Our Steel Conserve Our Environment) is the official spokesman for the Steel Recycling Institute. After one signs in, this interactive Web site is designed to teach kids, parents, and teachers about the importance of recycling and solid waste management and how every day actions affect the use of natural resources, energy, and even your piggy bank! Visitors can also use the chalkboard to tell the Steel Recycling Institute about things you are doing in your town to improve the environment and answer a survey to help track the opinions of today's youth.

Explorer's Club -- Garbage and Recycling
http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm

This web site, one of a set of Explorer's Club pages that offer environmental information for kids, suggests ways to reduce the amount of garbage you throw away with a story about how one town cleaned up their environment, a story about how kids beat the "Garbage Gremlin" using the three Rs, and the abcs of EPA.

U.S. EPA Student Center -- Waste and Recycling
http://www.epa.gov/students/

This web page, one of a set of well-designed pages for middle and high school students on environmental topics, includes the Municipal Solid Waste Factbook (full of facts such as how much stuff Americans throw away, which States recycle most, and how many landfills there are) and the Consumer’s Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste.

Virtual Recycling
http://www.virtualrecycling.com/

The "paperless depot of recycling information" offers tones of facts about recycling (and bad puns). The site offers fact sheets for teachers and students about recycled materials, the recycling process and markets for recycled goods.

BUYING RECYCLED

Texas Recycled
http://www.texasrecycled.org/

The Texas Recycled website offers lists of companies that sell recycled products. The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) promotes buying Texas Recycled products to: conserve natural resources, energy, and water, divert materials from Texas landfills, support the Texas economy and employ Texans.

Prevention & Recycling
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/admin/topdoc/gi/234/

This site includes an online guide, Demand The Supply: Buy Recycled, for starting or enhancing a buy-recycled program at work. It includes steps to buying recycled, commonly used recycling terms, and other resources such as trade organizations and directories.

Buy Recycled Training Institute
http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/uscm_projects_services/buy_recycled/contents.htm

This site provides information on the U.S. Conference of Mayor's training program and information on implementing a buy-recycled program, including examples of successful programs.

REUSING WASTE

Reuse Development Organization, Inc. (ReDO)
http://www.redo.org

ReDO is a nonprofit organization that promotes reuse as an environmentally sound, socially beneficial, and economical means for managing surplus and discarded materials. The site includes model programs, on-line discussions, resources, and technical assistance.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CIRRICULUMS

US. EPA Environmental Education Center
http://www.epa.gov/teachers

This comprehensive web site is a great resource of free curricula and activities on a variety of environmental topics (including air, ecosystems, conservation, human health, waste and recycling, and water), ideas for student community service projects and listings of events by area, information about environmental education workshops and conferences, student job resources, grant information, and other links.

EPA Office of Solid Waste Teacher Resources
www.epa.gov/epaoswer/education/teachers.htm

This site offers information on service learning opportunities when teaching students about recycling, source reduction and other solid waste issues, a biography of solid waste educational materials; and free curriculums for solid waste awareness.

California Integrated Waste Management Board
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Schools/Curriculum/default.htm

This site offers four curriculums, Closing The Loop: Exploring Integrated Waste Management and Resource Conservation (emphasizing waste prevention, recycling, composting, and vermicomposting through fun hands-on activities), Earth Resources--A Case Study: Oil(a science-based curriculum that engages high school students through inquiry and laboratory investigations that focus on oil), Project Learning Tree: Municipal Solid Waste Module(a module that provides interesting experiments and case studies encouraging critical thinking and decision making skills), and Worms, Worms, and Even More Worms (a guide that provides information on starting and maintaining a successful vermicomposting system and engaging lab activities for the classroom).

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: A Waste Reduction Activity Kit
http://www.eco-cycle.org/schools

This site offers ordering info for a kit that helps students learn about waste reduction.

Project Learning Tree
http://www.plt.org

PLT is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it.

The 4th R Program
http://www.niswmd.org/4rs/intro.htm

The 4^th R" program is an environmental education program, appropriate for the 4^th grade level, designed to supplement classroom instruction with real world examples. The program will challenge students to rethink issues about our environment through the study of "garbology", (the science of garbage) and will emphasize the 4-R's -reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink - through a variety of fun, hands-on activities. Math, science, reading and writing skills are all emphasized by means of in-class presentation, readings, small group work, classroom experiments, and after-school family projects. The overall goal of "The 4th R" is to help students become more resourceful, creative decision - makers as they learn about managing our solid waste, evaluating information, creating new products, and protecting our environment.

An Ounce of Prevention
http://cygnus-group.com/use-less-stuff/NSTA.html

An Ounce of Prevention is a free source reduction curriculum designed by the National Science Teachers Association for middle school students.

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	External Recycling Links of Interest General Recycling Information Environmental News City and State specific recycling information Information about specific recyclables Recycling information for kids, parents and teachers Buying recycled Reusing waste Environmental Education Curriculums GENERAL RECYCLING INFORMATION Earth's 911 www.1800Cleanup.org This comprehensive and well-designed site offers recycling, pollution prevention and environmental information personalized by zip code. Visitors can learn about recycling sites, household hazardous waste and pesticides, environmental events and education, energy conservation and much more for their local area. The Rotten Truth (About Garbage) http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm This amazing on-line Smithsonian exhibit in four sections takes an in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding municipal solid waste. What Is Garbage? looks at how we define garbage, and why it consists of more than what we throw away. There's No "Away" explores how burying, burning, and recycling garbage doesn't really get rid of it, and that reducing what we use is the only real solution to the garbage problem. Nature Recycles shows how the natural process of decay makes new life possible by recycling the limited number of nutrients present in the environment. Finally, Making Choices provides some helpful hints on how we can all create less garbage. Internet Consumer Recycling Guide www.obviously.com/recycle This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life. The site offers The World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling Guide, guides to recycling common materials and hard-to-recycle materials and steps to reduce unwanted mail. Environmental Defense Recycling Information Anti-Recycling Myths This page is full of interesting information about recycling, such as guides to buying products with less waste to save money and the environment, an environmentally friendly answer to the age old paper or plastic dilemma, and comparisons of recycling, landfilling and incineration. The site also contains facts on plastic, glass and metal recycling, answers to criticism of recycling, and Recycling World, which offers practical and creative ideas for recycling. Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN) http://www.grrn.org/ "The Grassroots Recycling Network is a North American network of recycling and community-based activists who advocate policies and practices to achieve zero waste, to end corporate welfare for waste, and to create sustainable jobs from discards. We aim to reverse unsustainable practices and policies by building effective coalitions and partnerships for Zero Waste policies based on government and corporate accountability for waste. " GRRN's website has information on their campaigns, an extensive list of resources, and information about a listserv focusing on strategies to advance sustainable resource policies. Check out their amazing reference library ( http://grn.com/library/library.htm) for links about public information and grants, sources of capital, laws and regulations, educational recycling resources, regional recycling resources, composting and the Earth, U.S. EPA links, recycling organizations and publications in the world, success stories from schools and community groups, and much much more. EPA Recycling Information http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/recycle.htm This website offers an overview of recycling, details of the recycling process, facts and figures about recycling, information about recycling opportunities for government, industry, organizations, small businesses, and households and links to organizations that deal with plastic, glass, paper and other recyclable materials. EPA Office of Solid Waste -- Publications for Concerned Citizens http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/citizens.htm#home This extensive list of publications provides basic facts about how waste is created and managed and how citizens can reduce, reuse, and recycle materials and consequently decrease the amount and toxicity of the waste produced in and around their homes. For example, publications cover how to deal with used motor oil, compost yard waste, and household hazardous waste. Publications also let visitors learn about waste management programs and opportunities to help you get involved and make a difference in your community, such as donating food to the needy, investigating green advertising claims, establishing recycling collection programs and planning and conducting environmentally aware meetings and events. (The) Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/catbook/index.htm Describes how consumers can reduce their garbage by making environmentally aware decisions about the products and packaging they purchase, use, and ultimately dispose of. Suggestions follow four basic principles: reduce, reuse, recycle, and respond. EPA Office of Solid Waste http://www.epa.gov/osw/ This web site offers extensive information and resources about municipal solid waste, such as state data, composting, climate change, extended product responsibility, jobs through recycling, landfills, household hazardous waste, pay as you throw programs, source reduction, etc. This page includes a link to a web page about WasteWise, a free, voluntary, flexible EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste therefore benefiting their bottom line and the environment. The Cygnus Group http://cygnus-group.com/ The Cygnus Group Web site is designed to provide individuals and organizations with information regarding the most efficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources, focusing on source reduction and reuse rather than just recycling. The site offers current and back copies of The ULS (Use Less Stuff) Report, information about ULS Day, 42 Ways to Trim Your Holiday Wasteline, information on packaging, EPA data on waste prevention and a comprehensive database of related resources. Recycler's World http://www.recycle.net/index.html This site is a world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used & surplus items or materials. There is also a calendar of events, a listing of associations, and a publications list. Zero Waste America http://www.zerowasteamerica.org This web site advocates zero waste, the recycling of all materials back into nature or the marketplace in a manner that protects human health and the environment. Visitors can learn about disposal and recycling, related legislation and ways to take action. America Recycles Day (ARD) http://www.americarecyclesday.org ARD is a national grassroots campaign dedicated to increasing the purchase of recycled content products and recycling throughout America. National Recycling Coalition http://www.nrc-recycle.org NRC is a not for profit organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of recycling, source reduction, composting, and reuse by providing technical information, education, training, outreach and advocacy services to its members in order to conserve resources and benefit the environment. The web site offers information about NRC members, programs, partnerships and publications. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News http://www.planetark.com This site offers "the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net" with stories about daily environmental news from around the world and an archive of past issues that can be searched by keyword and subject. CITY AND STATE SPECIFIC RECYCLING INFORMATION City of Austin Solid Waste Services http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws This site offers general information about the services and programs of solid waste services and specific details about the city's residential and commercial garbage and recycling services. Recycling Alliance of Texas http://www.recycletx.com The Recycling Alliance of Texas promotes waste reduction through public policy, advocacy, professional development and public education in order to conserve finite natural resources and protect and enhance our natural environment within a sustainable framework. The web site offers information about each of RAT's four teams: Coalition Development, Professional Development, Public Education and Policy. Recycle Texas Online http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/exec/sbea/rtol/index.html Recycle Texas Online is an online database provided by Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission that contains information on recycling businesses in Texas and the specific recyclable materials they handle. Recycle Texas Online can help sellers of recovered materials find information on collectors, processors, brokers, manufacturers, and composters who are located in and/or buy from your region of the state and can help purchasers of recyclable material identify those companies that sell a specific material in your geographic region. INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC RECYCLABLES The Steel Recycling Institute http://www.recycle-steel.org "The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) is an industry association that promotes and sustains the recycling of all steel products. The SRI educates the solid waste industry, government, business and ultimately the consumer about the benefits of steel's infinite recycling cycle." The site offers information about steel and how it is recyclable in cans, cars, appliances, construction material and an online database that lets users find out where they can recycle their steel. The site also has extensive educational materials for early childhood through high school, press releases, and publications explaining all about America's number 1 recycled material. AnotheR BytE, Inc. http://www.recycles.org/ Another Byte is a not-for-profit US IRS tax-exempt computer refurbishment and redistribution organization with a world wide focus toward bridging the Digital Divide. Their web site also offers information, a directory and an email discussion group about computer recycling. National Office Paper Recycling Project's Office Paper Recycling Guide es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/recypapr.html This guide to office recycling is intended to provide information on the importance of buying recycled products and collecting recyclable office waste paper. Conservatree http://www.conservatree.com/ This site provides information on recycled, tree-free, and chlorine printing ad writing papers. ReThink Paper http://www.rethinkpaper.org ReThink Paper is working to chart a precise course of action towards the solutions for wood use reduction. As the pulp and paper industry is the largest single industrial wood consumer in the US and in the world, it is important to reduce paper consumption and use alternative fiber pulps. Unless demand shifts to other products and other fibers, we will live on a planet without forests and the biological controls it offers us daily such as: flood control, carbon sinks, oxygen, water, and clean air to breath. RECYCLING INFORMATION FOR KIDS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS Recycle City http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity This nifty web site tells the story of Recycle City, formerly Dumptown, a town where residents learned to recycle. The site offers games, activities and facts to help kids learn about reducing waste through the three Rs. Roscoe's Recycle Room http://www.recycleroom.org ROSCOE (Recycle Our Steel Conserve Our Environment) is the official spokesman for the Steel Recycling Institute. After one signs in, this interactive Web site is designed to teach kids, parents, and teachers about the importance of recycling and solid waste management and how every day actions affect the use of natural resources, energy, and even your piggy bank! Visitors can also use the chalkboard to tell the Steel Recycling Institute about things you are doing in your town to improve the environment and answer a survey to help track the opinions of today's youth. Explorer's Club -- Garbage and Recycling http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm This web site, one of a set of Explorer's Club pages that offer environmental information for kids, suggests ways to reduce the amount of garbage you throw away with a story about how one town cleaned up their environment, a story about how kids beat the "Garbage Gremlin" using the three Rs, and the abcs of EPA. U.S. EPA Student Center -- Waste and Recycling http://www.epa.gov/students/ This web page, one of a set of well-designed pages for middle and high school students on environmental topics, includes the Municipal Solid Waste Factbook (full of facts such as how much stuff Americans throw away, which States recycle most, and how many landfills there are) and the Consumer’s Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste. Virtual Recycling http://www.virtualrecycling.com/ The "paperless depot of recycling information" offers tones of facts about recycling (and bad puns). The site offers fact sheets for teachers and students about recycled materials, the recycling process and markets for recycled goods. BUYING RECYCLED Texas Recycled http://www.texasrecycled.org/ The Texas Recycled website offers lists of companies that sell recycled products. The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) promotes buying Texas Recycled products to: conserve natural resources, energy, and water, divert materials from Texas landfills, support the Texas economy and employ Texans. Prevention & Recycling http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/admin/topdoc/gi/234/ This site includes an online guide, Demand The Supply: Buy Recycled, for starting or enhancing a buy-recycled program at work. It includes steps to buying recycled, commonly used recycling terms, and other resources such as trade organizations and directories. Buy Recycled Training Institute http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/uscm_projects_services/buy_recycled/contents.htm This site provides information on the U.S. Conference of Mayor's training program and information on implementing a buy-recycled program, including examples of successful programs. REUSING WASTE Reuse Development Organization, Inc. (ReDO) http://www.redo.org ReDO is a nonprofit organization that promotes reuse as an environmentally sound, socially beneficial, and economical means for managing surplus and discarded materials. The site includes model programs, on-line discussions, resources, and technical assistance. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CIRRICULUMS US. EPA Environmental Education Center http://www.epa.gov/teachers This comprehensive web site is a great resource of free curricula and activities on a variety of environmental topics (including air, ecosystems, conservation, human health, waste and recycling, and water), ideas for student community service projects and listings of events by area, information about environmental education workshops and conferences, student job resources, grant information, and other links. EPA Office of Solid Waste Teacher Resources www.epa.gov/epaoswer/education/teachers.htm This site offers information on service learning opportunities when teaching students about recycling, source reduction and other solid waste issues, a biography of solid waste educational materials; and free curriculums for solid waste awareness. California Integrated Waste Management Board http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Schools/Curriculum/default.htm This site offers four curriculums, Closing The Loop: Exploring Integrated Waste Management and Resource Conservation (emphasizing waste prevention, recycling, composting, and vermicomposting through fun hands-on activities), Earth Resources--A Case Study: Oil(a science-based curriculum that engages high school students through inquiry and laboratory investigations that focus on oil), Project Learning Tree: Municipal Solid Waste Module(a module that provides interesting experiments and case studies encouraging critical thinking and decision making skills), and Worms, Worms, and Even More Worms (a guide that provides information on starting and maintaining a successful vermicomposting system and engaging lab activities for the classroom). Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: A Waste Reduction Activity Kit http://www.eco-cycle.org/schools This site offers ordering info for a kit that helps students learn about waste reduction. Project Learning Tree http://www.plt.org PLT is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it. The 4th R Program http://www.niswmd.org/4rs/intro.htm The 4^th R" program is an environmental education program, appropriate for the 4^th grade level, designed to supplement classroom instruction with real world examples. The program will challenge students to rethink issues about our environment through the study of "garbology", (the science of garbage) and will emphasize the 4-R's -reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink - through a variety of fun, hands-on activities. Math, science, reading and writing skills are all emphasized by means of in-class presentation, readings, small group work, classroom experiments, and after-school family projects. The overall goal of "The 4th R" is to help students become more resourceful, creative decision - makers as they learn about managing our solid waste, evaluating information, creating new products, and protecting our environment. An Ounce of Prevention http://cygnus-group.com/use-less-stuff/NSTA.html An Ounce of Prevention is a free source reduction curriculum designed by the National Science Teachers Association for middle school students.

External Recycling Links of Interest