Additional Municipal Recycling Resources

Additional Municipal Recycling Resources

CT Recyclers Listserv

This list is open to professionals and community volunteers working on municipal recycling efforts and is for discussing recycling and solid waste recovery challenges and opportunities. DEEP is sponsoring this discussion list to encourage cross-pollination of ideas, hear new concepts, approaches and technologies, share successes, projects and programs and overall provide each other support in an effort to increase recycling and solid waste recovery in Connecticut.  To join, email Sherill Baldwin.

Guidebooks, Manuals, Toolkits, Fact Sheets & Signage

• Recycling Makes Sen$e - A Waste Prevention and Recycling Guide for Businesses, Schools and Municipal Offices (NERC)

• Tools for Local Government Recycling Programs (EPA)

• Hauler Terms and Waste Conversion Factors (NERC)

• Vermont Universal Recycling Symbols (VT DEC)

Publications

• American Recycler
  Monthly newspaper serving those in the recycling, salvage and waste industries

• BioCycle
  A monthly in-print and digital journal dedicated to advancing composting, renewable energy & sustainability

• Compost Science & Utilization A quarterly peer-reviewed journal focusing on management techniques to improve compost process control and product quality, with special emphasis on utilization of composted materials. (Now published by Taylor and Francis)

• Construction & Demolition Recycling The Industry's News and Resource Center

• Container Recycling Institute Newsletter
  Quarterly Newsletter for members only; Weekly Headlines free to anyone. Contains current information on states, provinces and countries considering new or expanded bottle bills, as well as other current information on container and package recycling.

• Environmental Headlines
  Daily Environmental On-line News Headlines.

• ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainabilitye-Newsletter
  Through expertise, direct support and innovation and evolution of tools, ICLEI strives to empower local governments to set and achieve their climate protection and sustainability goals.

• MSW Management
  The Journal for Solid Waste Management Professionals

• NERC EMail Bulletin
  A short monthly newsletter, providing information about NERC's activities, member State updates, and links to meeting announcements, publications, press releases and other NERC material.

• Recycling Today
  Provides coverage of the secondary commodity processing and recycling markets, from legislative and regulatory issues to business trends and technical news.

• Resource Recycling
  North America's Recycling and Composting Journal

• The Paper Stock ReportBi-weekly print or on-line newsletter that covers the markets for recovered scrap paper, including current market prices paid by dealers/processors and paper mills.

• Waste 360
  Print or on-line, formerly Waste Age, serves private contracting firms, governmental entities, consulting engineers, industrial plants, retailing firms, and hospitals, as well as equipment dealers, distributors, manufacturers and other allies to the field.

• Waste and Recycling News
  On-line blog that reports on solid waste management, from product design to disposal and recovery.

Helpful Organizations - In Connecticut

• Building Connecticut Green
  On-line Resource for Green Business and Green Building.

• Connecticut Business & Industry Association's (CBIA) Green Business Center
  Organization seeking to expand opportunities for businesses of all sizes to participate in and profit from emerging market trends and business practices.

• Connecticut Climate Change  Connecticut's official climate change website.

• Connecticut Earth Network
  Interactive, web-based network designed to support and further empower the efforts of local groups across Connecticut to protect, improve and sustain the environmental quality of the state.

• Connecticut Environmental Forum  (CEF)
  An organization that provides a forum for environmental professionals to share and exchange information and experiences on environmental matters.

• Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE)  Environmental action through legal and scientific expertise.

• Connecticut Recyclers Coalition  (CRC)
  A group of corporate, municipal, institutional and private members working with recycling and related issues in Connecticut.

• Connecticut Society for Women Environmental Professionals (SWEP-CT)
  National non-profit professional association of individuals involved or interested in environmental law, science, business and policy.

• Interreligious Eco-Justice Network (IREJN) Engage people from every faith tradition in prayer, dialogue, education and advocacy in celebration of the sacredness of creation.

Helpful Organizations - Nation-wide

• Earth911
  One-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing one's environmental impact, reusing and recycling.

• Grist
  Grist reports about environmental issues, has a number of e-lists you can subscribe too.

• Keep America Beautiful
  Nation's largest volunteer-based community action and education organization.

• National Recycling Coalition  (NRC) Dedicated to the advancement and improvement of recycling, waste prevention, composting, and reuse.

• Recycling Organizations of North America (RONA)
  A resource for likeminded organizations to support, enhance, teach, share, and sustain recycling in North America.

• JTR Professional Recyclers Network (EPA)
  Limited to discussions regarding all aspects of recycling from collection to processing and manufacturing.

• GREENYES (GRRN) greenyes@googlegroups.com
  Unmoderated discussion forum focusing on policies and strategies needed to advance sustainable resource policies.

• New American Dream New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA)
  EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts.

Social Media / Networking (Environmental)

• Using Social Media to Promote Recycling  (CT DEEP)
• Green Drinks International  Opportunity for environmental professionals and activists to connect in a relaxed social setting.

• Green Speech An on-line conversation about Connecticut's environment.

• Reduce/Reuse/Recycle

Disclaimer: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) maintains the content on this web site to enhance public access to information. The DEEP is not recommending these resources over any others.

Content Last Updated  February 2020