Waste Links
- Aluminum Association — http://www.aluminum.org — Site contains information on recycling, environmental programs, industry facts, and technology.
- Aluminum Foil Container Manufacturers Association — http://www.afcma.org/ — Site contains fact sheets on recycling aluminium foil containers.
- American Forest & Paper Association: Recycling — http://www.afandpa.org/Recycling/ — Site contains information on wood and paper recycling.
- American Plastics Council — http://www.plastics.org/topics/conservation/ — Site contains information on resource conservation, waste reduction, landfilling, energy efficiency, and controlled combustion.
- American Iron and Steel Institute — http://www.steel.org/ — Site contains fact sheets on steel recycling and use in appliances, buildings, and vehicles.
- Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials — http://www.astswmo.org/ — Site contains information on the various programs including CERCLA, solid waste, hazardous waste, tanks, pollution prevention, and federal facilities.
- Can Manufacturers Institute — http://www.cancentral.com/index.htm — Site contains fact sheets on can recycling including steel and aluminium cans.
- Department of Defense: Ship Scrapping — http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/News/OSD/Ships/ships.html — Site contains information and reports on ship-scrapping programs.
- EcoIQ.com Solid Waste & Recyclingg — http://www.ecoiq.com/solidwaste/ — Site contains information on making smart choices about the wastes now generated in homes, businesses, and communities.
- Electric Power Research Institute: Land and Waste — http://www.epri.com/eg/emfba.html — Site contains information on research into combustion waste and groundwater protection, MGP site remediation and health risks, and transmission and distribution soil and water issues.
- Environmental Defense Fund — http://www.edf.org/pubs/Reports/ — Site contains various reports on recycling issues.
- Environmental Health Center: Electronic Product Recovery and Recycling — http://www.nsc.org/ehc/epr2.htm — Site provides information on the EPR2 Project that promotes management of electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life and ways to overcome market, economic, regulatory, administrative, and institutional barriers to effective management of electronic equipment throughout its life cycle.
- Glass Packaging Institute: Recycling — http://www.gpi.org/issues.htm — Site contains information and fact sheets on recycling glass containers.
- Global Recycling Network — http://www.grn.com/grn/ — Site gives information on recycling including company directories, business pages, business opportunities, reference library, recycling stocks, and commodity prices,
- Inform — http://www.informinc.org/INFORM.html — Site contains information on sustainable practices and products with an emphasis on recycling.
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Waste Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, and Scrap-based Manufacturing — http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/ — Site has extensive information on waste reduction and recycling, sources of capital (international in scope with address, phone, fax and contact information as well as brief summary of the company), laws and regulations, EPA guidelines, environmental laws, and a glossary of recycling terms.
- Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries — http://www.ISRI.org/ — Site contains scrap specifications, statistics, and technical information.
- Municipal Waste Management Association — http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/about/affiliate_organizations/non-elected_affiliates/municip.html — Site gives information on Municipal Waste Management Association.
- Transportation Resource Exchange — http://www.trex-center.org/default.htm — T-REX, the Transportation Resource Exchange is the hub for the Department of Energy's National Transportation Program which is working to create a single point in the information network where users can find the answers to complex issues surrounding radioactive material transportation.
- U.S. Conference of Mayors: Recycling at Work — http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/brownfields/ — Site contains information on various recycling programs designed for the office.
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