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Curbside Recycling Home | About Plastics | About Our Program | Motor Oil Recycling | Beyond 50% Diversion

Beyond 50% Waste Diversion…

Successful Strategies from Around the World


     

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, http://www.cawrecycles.org/
  • INFORM, www.informinc.org
  • Lund University, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, http://www.lu.se/IIIEE/research/products/pp_introduction.html
  • Computer TakeBack Campaign, www.computertakeback.org, www.svtc.org and
    www.grrn.org

GENERAL CLEAN PRODUCTION RESOURCES

  • Clean Production Action website, www.cleanproduction.org
  • Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), www.turi.org (Please note the Government Policy section of this website)
  • United Nations Environment Program, Cleaner Production activities, http://www.uneptie.org/pc/cp/

CHEMICALS

  • Coming Clean network, http://www.come-clean.org/
  • Chemicals Policy Initiative, www.chemicalspolicy.org

PVC REPORTS

  • PVC-Free Future: A Review of Restrictions and PVC free Policies Worldwide (274K pdf file), http://archive.greenpeace.org/~toxics/reports/restrictions.pdf
  • PVC Plastic: a Looming Waste Crisis, http://archive.greenpeace.org/~comms/pvctoys/reports/loomingcontents.html
  • Health Care Without Harm, www.hcwh.org

OTHER RESOURCES

  • Green Dot system in Germany, http://www.gruener-punkt.de/ds/en
  • Zero Waste New Zealand Trust, www.zerowaste.co.nz
  • Brominated Flame Retardants Information Clearinghouse, http://www.greenstart.org/efc9/
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