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Government Recycling Links
- City of Mountain View Solid Waste Program
- The City of Mountain View's solid waste website describes garbage and recycling for households and businesses,
clean-up events, composting, household hazardous waste, and recycling drop-off and buy-back centers.
- City of Palo Alto Recycling and Solid Waste Programs
- The City of Palo Alto's recycling program website offers information about all types of recycling in Palo Alto and
Palo Alto's recycling drop off center and landfill and composting facility. The site describes special programs (such as compost
workshops and giveaways, a junk mail reduction kit and buying recycled), upcoming events, and recycling and solid waste
links. Check out the Recyclopedia to learn
how to reuse or recycle almost any household item you can think of.
- City of San Jose Integrated Waste Management
- The City of San Jose's website aims to help residents recycle where they live, work and play. To help residents recycle
at their homes, the site includes information on garbage, recycling, and yard trimmings pick-up, home composting, household
hazardous waste, and waste reduction. To help businesses recycle, the site describes the dry waste recycling program,
San Jose's commercial solid waste program and haulers, collectors of recyclables for businesses, the recycle where you
work program, the city employee recycling program, and construction and demolition (C&D) recycling. To help residents
recycle where they play, the site has information on San Jose's newest project to bring recycling to public buildings, parks
and pedestrian walkways.
- City of Sunnyvale Solid Waste and Recycling Programs
- The City of Sunnyvale's recycling program website offers information about all types of recycling in the city, the
Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station, hazardous waste, compost workshops, the city-wide garage
sale, special events, environmental achievement awards, and recycled paper.
- County of Santa Clara Solid Waste Commission
- This site has extensive resources on integrated waste management with sections on recycling basics, business and
commercial recycling, recycled paper, home composting, construction and demolition projects, disposal, and information
for schools and teachers.
- County of San Mateo Recycle Works
- We are the Recycling and Composting Program of the County of San Mateo. We've developed the RecycleWorks
website to answer waste prevention, recycling and composting questions of all who live, work, attend school, or play in
San Mateo County. The site has information about where to recycle all types of materials in San Mateo County, residential and
commercial recycling, green building and demolition, environmental education and school recycling programs, composting,
e-waste, recycled paper, and recycling facts for kids.
- Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Source Reduction and Recycling Board
- Alameda County's recycling website offers information about the Waste Management Authority, news and special
events, how and where to recycle in Alameda County, resources for students and teachers, reports and studies, business
and commercial recycling, building and construction, home composting, recycled paper, waste reduction for landscapers, household
hazardous waste, funding assistance, and free resources.
- City and County of San Francisco Solid Waste Management Program
- This website has information about waste reduction, hazardous waste, what to do with various items, buying, selling
and donating used goods, and composting. The site also offers information about recycling programs for San Francisco residents and
businesses, school recycling and environmental education programs, city government recycling programs, construction and
demolition firms, the Solid Waste Management Program and the history of recycling in San Francisco.
- California Integrated Waste Management Board
- The six-member Integrated Waste Management Board is responsible for protecting the public's health and safety
and the environment through management of the estimated 60 million tons of solid waste generated in California. The
Board works in partnership with local government, industry, and the public to reduce waste disposal and ensure
environmentally safe landfills. Their website has information about CIWMB programs and specific materials. The schools
section of the website offers four cirricula
for elementary through high school students on waste management and resource conservation, oil, municipal solid waste,
and vermicomposting.
- Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling
- The Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling administers the California Beverage Container Recycling
and Litter Reduction Act (Act) enacted in 1986. The primary goal of the Act is to achieve and maintain high recycling
rates for each beverage container type included in the program. The Division provides a number of services to achieve
these goals, including enforcement, auditing, grant funding, technical assistance and education.
- Earth's 911
- 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)
- 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.
- EPA Office of Solid Waste
- 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. Check out the Office of Solid Waste's Teacher Resources section
for 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 cirriculums for solid waste awareness. The
office of solid waste's publications for concerned citizens site
, an 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.
- EPA Recycling Information
- 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.
- The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
- 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.
- Second Time Around
- This site offers a "menu" of information about recycling, including what recycling is, why everyone should recycle,
what can be recycled, and buying recycled goods. The site also has facts about aluminum, batteries, glass, motor oil,
paper, plastic, steel, and yard waste.
- CIWMB's Paper Information and Resources
- This web site gives information on paper, waste prevention, recovery, markets, recycled paper, and tree-free paper.
- US. EPA Environmental Education Center
- 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.
- Recycle City
- 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.
- Explorer's Club -- Garbage and Recycling
- 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
- 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.
If you know of another link that should be listed on this page, please email
Julie Muir
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