Organizations and Links
Government Agencies
Environmental Organizations
- A Recycling Revolution - Educational webpage of Dawn Burden Bates
- Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)
- Earth 911 - Earth 911 empowers the Earth’s citizenry with community-specific “actionable” environmental information for you to use in everyday life for the purpose of living responsibly by contributing to the solution of sustainability.
- GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) - GRRN is a national network of waste reduction activists and recycling professionals that call for Zero Waste (ZW) in the United States by promoting the message that we must go “beyond recycling” and go upstream to the headwaters of the waste stream which is the industrial designer’s desk.
- National Recycling Coalition (NRC) - NRC is a national non-profit advocacy group with members that span all aspects of waste reduction, reuse and recycling in North America. NRC is dedicated to the advancement and improvement of recycling, waste prevention, composting, and reuse.
- Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) - NRDC is an environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things
- Waste Watch - Waste Watch is UK based, independent, not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity. We advise, educate and inform people on ways to reduce all forms of waste - from the rubbish we throw away and the energy we needlessly use to the water we pour down the drain.
Academic Institutions
Industrial Association
- Aluminium Association
- American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA)
- Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL)
- Association of Plastics Manufacturers of Europe (PlasticsEurope)
- Association of Post Consumer Plastics Recyclers (APR)
- Can Manufacturers Institute
- Consortium of Automotive Recycling (CARE, UK)
- Curbside Value Partnership (CVP) - The Curbside Value Partnership has 2 goals: to increase participation in residential curbside recycling programs and to measure the growth to enable better decision making. We accomplish our goals by partnering with communities to launch and test education programs and by promoting what we learn nationally through our Web site, newsletter, media coverage and through conferences and other forums.
- Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
- End of Life Vehicle Solutions Corporation (ELVS)
- Energy Recovery Council (ERC) (formerly IWSA) - ERC promotes integrated solutions to municipal solid waste management challenges. ERC encourages the use of waste-to-energy technology as an integral component of a comprehensive, integrated solid waste management program. The 87 waste-to-energy plants nationwide dispose about 90,000 tons of trash each day and generats energy to supply electricity to about 2.3 million homes nationwide.
- Environmental Defense - Environmental Defense takes the approach to show how economic growth and a healthy planet can go hand in hand.
- European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates (ECPI)
- Glass Packaging Institute
- Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI)
- International Copper Study Group (ICSG)
- International Magnesium Association (IMA)
- letsrecycle.com (UK) - letsrecycle.com is an independent dedicated website for businesses, local authorities and community groups involved in recycling and waste management. The free on-line service delivers news and material prices plus information for the business sector ranging from suppliers of plant, equipment, vehicles and services through to job vacancies, careers advice and tenders.
- Magnesium.com - News, forum, business, ... around magnesium
- Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Recycling and Economic Development Officials (MACREDO)
- National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR)
- National Demolition Association
- National Glass Association
- National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA) - NSWMA is a trade association representing for-profit companies in North America that provide solid, hazardous and medical waste collection, recycling and disposal services, and companies that provide professional and consulting services to the waste services industry. NSWMA's mission is to promote the management of waste in a manner that is environmentally responsible, efficient, profitable and ethical, while benefiting the public and protecting employees.
- Petcore (Europe) - Petcore, PET containers recycling Europe, is a non-profit European association fostering the use and development of PET containers and facilitating both PET recycling and the development of recycled end material. Their intent was to create a "knowledge centre" on PET that would promote the product across the European continent.
- PET Power (Netherlands) - This website is a project of The Container Recycling Institute (CRI). CRI is a nonprofit organization that studies and promotes policies and programs that increase recovery and recycling of beverage containers, and shift the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste from government and taxpayers to producers and consumers.
- Plastics Foodservice Packaging Group (PFPG) - Division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC)
- PVC The Home of European PVC Producers
- Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC)
- Recycle Bank - Recycle Bank provides communities with a cost effective and environmentally conscious solution to the rising cost of waste collection.
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) - Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is a diverse organization engaged in research, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.
- Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)
- Steel Can Recycling Council Website (Australia)
- Steel Recycling Institute (SRI)
- TAPPI (Paper and Pulp) - TAPPI is a global association for the pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and co-publisher of Paper360°. Through information exchange, trusted content, and networking opportunities, TAPPI helps members elevate their performance by providing solutions for better, faster, and more cost effective ways of doing business.
- The Association of Battery Recyclers
- The British Glass Website (UK)
- The Container Recycling Institute
- The National Office Paper Recycling Project
- The Paper Industry Association Council (PIAC)
- The Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC)
- The Society of the Plastics Industry
- USCAR Vehicle Recycling Partnership
- United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR)
- Vinyl Council of Canada
- Vinyl2010 - The European PVC Industrie's Sustainability Programme
Other Groups and Resources
- Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) - ILSR provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local resources.
- International Universal Recycling Codes (Wikipedia)
- The Environment Directory
- Waste Online (UK) - Waste Online provides information on sustainability, resource use and waste issues to many stakeholders, regardless of their location and introductory knowledge level, in an accessible and effective manner. Wasteonline is an online document library, as such some of the documents here may be quite old, and some details will have changed, or be out of date. It will not be possible for Wasteonline to make any changes to documents that it does not hold the copyright for. Any requests for amendments must go, in the first instance, to the original copyright holder.
