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Why Recycle?

How-to Resources

Good Reading

Sorry State of
Plastics Recycling

US State Recycling
Organizations

GRRN Report

Wasting & Recycling in the U.S. 2000
GrassRoots Recycling Network, 2000

Why Recycle? back
- Beyond Recycling: The Future of Zero Waste
  by Helen Spiegelman, Spring 2003
- Wasting & Recycling in the U.S. 2000
  GrassRoots Recycling Network, 2000
- Zero Waste, Recycling and Climate Change
  GrassRoots Recycling Network, 2000
- Welfare for Waste: How Federal Taxpayer Subsidies
  Waste Resources and Undermine Recycling
  GrassRoots Recycling Network, 1999
- Waste Reduction Record Setters: Program Profiles [off-site]
  Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1999
- How to Respond to Attacks on Recycling [off-site]
  National Recycling Coalition
  http://www.nrc-recycle.org/members/defend/factsheet.htm
- Puzzled about Recycling's Value? Look Beyond the Bin [off-site]
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1998
- Materials: Industrial Ecology, Material and Energy Flows [off-site]
  U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, 1998
- Recycling Facts [off-site]
  Californians Against Waste, 1997
- Too Good to Throw Away: Recycling's Proven Record [off-site]
  Natural Resources Defense Council, 1997
- Environmental Life-Cycle Comparisons of Recycling,
  Landfilling and Incineration [off-site]
  Environmental Defense, 1996
- Advantage Recycle: Assessing the Full Costs and Benefits
  of Curbside Recycling [off-site]
  Environmental Defense, 1995
How-To Resources back
- WASTE TO WEALTH: [off-site] Community Development through Reuse and Recycling
  From the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website : "Waste to Wealth was one of ILSR's first programs, and for more than a quarter-century it has continued to provide timely, objective analyses of the latest waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing technologies, practices, and policies."
- Total Recycling Systems - By Daniel Knapp, Ph.D. & Mary Lou Van Deventer, Urban Ore
Good Reading back
- Magazine P.A.P.E.R. Project [off-site]
  The PAPER Project aims to catalyze environmental leadership in the magazine industry by documenting waste and pollution resulting from current practices and providing a mandate for change from the reading public. June 2001
- Energy To Waste? [off-site]
  By Usman Valiente, Solid Waste & Recycling, April/May 2000.
  Forget weight -- let's measure materials by their energy and emissions.
- Into the Mainstream, Out of the Limelight [off-site]
  How, Despite Overwhelming Public Support, the Waste Industry Has Undermined Recycling - by Mike Garfield - Ecology Center (Ann Arbor) (2000)
- Who's Behind The Attack on Recycling? [off-site]by Neil N. Seldman- Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Reprinted in Real Goods and Greenpeace Magazine (1996)
- Environmental Life-Cycle Comparisons [off-site]of Recycling, Landfilling and Incineration: A Review of Recent Studies (1996) [pdf]
  This peer-reviewed, fully referenced paper from the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment documents the major environmental advantages of recycling compared to disposal using landfilling and incineration.
Sorry State of Plastics Recycling back
- Sorry State of Plastics Recycling [off-site] by Richard Densison (1997)
- Manufacturing a Myth: [off-site] The Plastics Recycling Ploy. By Dan Rademacher. Terrain Magazine, Winter 1999
- Promoting Waste: [off-site]Quotes from the Plastics Industry, 1986-1996. By Dan Knapp, Ph.D.
Links to US State Recycling Organizations back
- State Recycling Organizations [off-site](SRO's)



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