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Recycling Your Thinking - Lists many suggestions to reduce waste. Go

Recycling in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough - Information & education on recycling in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough area in the UK. Go

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. Go

Freecycle - Network to promote waste reduction & help save landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network gives individual persons & non-profits an electronic forum to recycle/ give away unwanted items. Go

Recycle.co.uk - Offers a forum for recycling unwanted goods throughout the United Kingdom & Ireland. Go

Integrated Waste Management Board's Local Government Central - Information & tools to help local governments reduce, reuse, recycle & cut the amount of garbage going to landfills. Go

Recycling at Seattle Area Coop - How Seattle-area housing coop uses just 2 trash cans with 5 families. Go

Recycle-more - British site that tells you where your nearest recycling facility is & gives important recycling information for business, schools & consumers. Go

PA Forest Lands Beautification Program - The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR) has teamed up with nonprofit PA CleanWays to get rid of illegally dumped trash in Pennsylvania's state forests & parks. Go

Electronic Product Recovery & Recycling (EPR2) Project - 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. Go

Environmental Expert -- Recycling - Presents free accessible articles, magazines, events & technological solutions for recycling. Go

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. Go

Crayon Recycle Program - A way to give kids a chance to recycle something of their very own. Go

Waste Watch - Information, publications & advice on waste reduction, reuse & recycling. Based in the United Kingdom. Go

National Recycling Coalition - Coalition of U.S. organizations committed to maximizing recycling to achieve benefits of resource conservation, solid waste reduction, environmental protection, energy conservation & social & economic development. Go

The Toxic Waste on Your Desk - A site on the toxic elements in computer screens. Go

Integrated Waste Services Association - Provides information on waste to energy technology & integrated waste management solutions. Go

Green Design Computer Recycling Page - Professional paper at Carnegie Mellon about recycling that old computer. [Adobe Acrobat Reader required.] Go

Keep America Beautiful - A non-profit organization whose network of local, statewide & international affiliate programs educate individual persons about litter prevention & ways to reduce, reuse, recycle & properly manage waste materials. Go

Pennsylvania Cleanways - A nonprofit organization which battles littering & illegal trash dumping through community cleanups, education, increased enforcement, & promoting specialty recycling programs. Go

Stop Littering - This site promotes the concept of keeping our planet clean by not littering. Go

Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign - Covers environmental/waste issues in Australia, & promotes recycling of cardboard, & the use of recycled cartonboard for packaging. Go

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. (April 17, 2002) Go

GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) - Dedicated to environmental stewardship & achieving a sustainable economy by eliminating waste & reusing, recycling & composting resources. Advocates an end to corporate subsidies for waste, hopes to create new jobs from discarded materials. Go

Carymoor Environmental Centre - Information about the center, its educational & community programs, its research, & center news. Tours conducted of working landfill, nature trail available. Go

Community Change Party - Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction & prevention. Based in Australia. Go

Re~Cycle - A UK charity which sends old bicycles to poor countries such as Haiti & South Africa & trains people how to repair & maintain the bikes. Go

The Metropolitan Environmental Trust - The M.E.T. coordinates & encourages recycling efforts in the metropolitan Tulsa, Oklahoma area. Go

European Topic Centre on Waste - Information about waste & waste management in Europe enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures & to ensure that the public is properly informed. Go

NPR Science Friday : A Question on Earth Day: Paper, Plastic or Neither? - Discussion: Can Americans learn to live with less packaging, & how much of the recyclable materials used are actually being recycled? [16:56 streaming audio broadcast] (April 22, 2005) Go

Recycle City - What happens to garbage & why recycling is important. Includes a game & other activities. Go

Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, IL - SWALCO handles aspects of solid waste planning & management for Lake County, Illinois. Also has technical assistance programs, public information & education programs & targeted projects. Go

Recycling for the Commoner - Teaches the everyday essentials in a light & fun way, from a Canadian youth's point-of-view. Go

New York State Association for Reduction Reuse & Recycling - NYSAR3 is the State Association that Represents New York State's Recycling Community. Go



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