State Recycling Resources

For more specific state-by-state recycling and waste reduction information.

Healthcare

Healthcare Without Harm
Healthcare Without Harm is a global coalition of 473 organizations in more than 50 countries working to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.

Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices.

Recycling

America Recycles Day
America Recycles Day (ARD), November 15, is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and to buy recycled products.

Earth911
Earth911.com is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Resource Conservation – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
The Environmental Protection Agency’s list of resources and information about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle our solid wastes.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WasteWise
WasteWise targets the reduction of municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes.

Global Recycling Network
Global Recycling Network is an electronic information exchange that specializes in the trade of recyclables reclaimed in municipal solid waste streams, as well as the marketing of eco-friendly products.

Grassroots Recycling Network
The Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN) is the leading voice calling for Zero Waste 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.

Keep America Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful is the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization engaging individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community’s environment.

National Recycling Coalition
The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) is a national non-profit advocacy group with members that span all aspects of waste reduction, reuse and recycling in North America.

Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE) promotes sustainable environmental stewardship throughout the federal government.

Resource Recycling
Resource Recycling is North America’s recycling and composting journal that has published industry periodicals for more than 26 years.

Solid Waste

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Solid Waste
EPA Office of Solid Waste protects human health and the environment by ensuring responsible national management of hazardous and nonhazardous waste.

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management
MSW Management is a journal for solid waste professionals and is the official journal for SWANA.

Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)
SWANA advances the practice of environmentally and economically sound management of municipal solid waste in North America.

Waste Age
Waste Age magazine serves as a resource for private contracting firms, governmental entities, consulting engineers, industrial plants, retailing firms and hospitals, as well as equipment dealers, distributors, manufacturers and others allied to the field.