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Recycling Links and Resources

Information on plastics recycling
Information on plastic health effects

Download the PowerPoint presentation, "30 Years of Curbside Recycling" (8.3 MB).
Download the PowerPoint presentation, "Closing the Product Loop" (2.2 MB).
Read Beverly Thorpe's keynote speech from the Ecology Center's "30 Years of Curbside Recycling" celebration.


Additional Resources:


EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY

  • California E-Waste measure
  • INFORM
  • Lund University, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Computer TakeBack Campaign, www.svtc.org, and
    www.grrn.org

GENERAL CLEAN PRODUCTION RESOURCES

  • Clean Production Action website
  • Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) (Please note the Government Policy section of this website)
  • United Nations Environment Program, Cleaner Production activities

CHEMICALS

  • Coming Clean network
  • Chemicals Policy Initiative

PVC REPORTS

  • PVC-Free Future: A Review of Restrictions and PVC free Policies Worldwide [PDF, 274 KB]
  • PVC Plastic: a Looming Waste Crisis
  • Health Care Without Harm

OTHER RESOURCES

  • Green Dot system in Germany
  • Zero Waste New Zealand Trust
  • Brominated Flame Retardants Information Clearinghouse
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