The Center for a New American Dream is a nonprofit organization that helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the environment.

Earth 911 is a public/private partnership to provide online, geographically specific information on recycling centers. The website provides a powerful nationwide search function for locating the recycling center nearest you, as well as information on composting, used oil recycling, electronics recycling and household hazardous waste recycling.

The Environmental Organization Web Directory contains a section on recycling, with numerous links for many specific recycling topics, including publications, law and policy, and individual materials. There also are links to agencies and nonprofit organizations active in the field.

Global Recycling Network offers a one-stop online solution to recycling information needs of business users, researchers, publishers and purchasing agents, while spurring the development of international trade of recyclable goods and services. Provides an excellent reference library and extensive links. 

Green Restaurant Association (GRA) is a national non-profit organization that provides services in research, consulting, education, marketing and community organizing. The GRA utilizes a collaborative strategy that involves restaurants, manufacturers, vendors, grassroots organizations, government, media, and restaurant customers. The GRA's model provides a convenient way for all sectors of the restaurant industry, which represents 10 percent of the U.S. economy, to become more environmentally sustainable.

GreenScapes Alliance, launched by EPA, aims to combine government and industry into a powerful, unified influence over the reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste materials in large land use applications.

EPA's Household Waste Management is a computer program that provides information on reducing the amount of solid and hazardous waste generated at home. Educational activites and quizzes are included. Safe use, storage, handling, and disposal practices for household hazardous wastes are also dicussed.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) works with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local resources. ILSR provides many publications and technical papers on recycling, particularly through its Waste to Wealth project. 

iShareStuff is a website that allows people to catalog things they own and are willing to share. The goal of the site is to reduce materials use and save money by sharing items.

Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN) is a forum and clearinghouse of environmental information for local government. Access is available to regulatory and pollution prevention information, tools and resources, consultants, regulatory updates, and grants and financing information.

National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is the largest membership organization in the United States devoted solely to pollution prevention (P2). The mission of the Roundtable is to provide a national forum for promoting the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source.

The National Recycling Coalition works to maximize recycling as a strategy for resource conservation, waste reduction, environmental production, energy conservation, and economic development. 

The National Waste Prevention Coalition provides resources and technical assistance to local governments, state governments, non-profit organizations, universities, consultants, and others to prevent waste from being created, and to reduce the use of resources. 

EPA’s Pay-As-You-Throw encourages waste reduction and recycling by requiring payment for solid waste disposal directly based on the amount of waste generated. The less citizens toss, the less they pay. 

Recycler’s World serves as an online world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or materials. The Recycler’s World site provides directories of links to Recycling Associations and Information and Material Exchanges. 

The Recycling at Work Project of the U.S. Conference of Mayors provides cities across the U.S. with technical assistance, market information, data, and guidebooks for setting up office paper recycling programs and for purchasing recycled products. 

Resources for the Future Foundation offers information on projects and publications related to the topic of Solid Waste and Recycling.

ReusableBags.com helps raise awareness of the routine act of using plastic bags and sells a wide variety of reusable bags. The website provides background information on plastic bag production, consumption and pollution, on 'paper vs. plastic,' on plastic recycling, and on successful plastic bag taxes and restrictions.

Reuse Development Organization (ReDO) is a national non-profit organization promoting reuse on every level. Their website includes links to local reuse centers in many locations.

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) offers educational services, publications, and professional training to advance economically and environmentally sound solid waste management practices. SWANA has one of the most extensive municipal solid waste (MSW) management libraries in the world, with over 7,000 listings on all aspects of the MSW field, from collection to ultimate disposal. 

The Tellus Institute conducts studies on environment, resource, and development issues, develops and applies analytical methods, works to strengthen human and institutional capacity and provides support to government, multi-lateral, and non-governmental institutions and businesses. 

Waste Prevention World is a website of the California Integrated Waste Management Board created to provide information on source reduction techniques and technologies for businesses and residences. The site offers an on-line database of articles, reports, and factsheets, as well as links and publications for a range of integrated waste management topics. 

WasteWi$e is a voluntary partnership program between EPA and the business community to reduce municipal solid waste through implementation of innovative and cost-saving waste reduction and reuse programs. 

Last updated: February 3, 2005

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