Buffalo Recycles
Links

Here are a few of our favorite recycling-related sites on the internet. Choose a category to see the links.

Enviro$en$e - Single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and data bases.

EPA: Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines - Key component in the government's buy-recycled program.

EPA: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - Recycling tips from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Healthy Communities Environmental Mapping - Empowers local communities to build smarter and healthier neighborhoods.

Recycle City - Learn how to recycle, reduce, and reuse waste.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - The federal government environmental research department.

America Recycles Day - A national event (Nov 15) designed to generate renewed public enthusiasm for recycling.

Container Recycling Institute - A non-profit, research and public education organization studying container packaging recycling and reuse.

Ecology Action - Achieving community and environmental excellence through partnership and innovation. Information of annual coastal cleanup, pollution prevention, and alternative transportation solutions.

Environmental Defense - Seeks to find innovative and practical ways to solve the most urgent environmental problems.

Friends of the Earth - US - This nonprofit organization focuses on the economics of sustainable growth.

GrassRoots Recycling Network - A North American network of recycling and community-based activists who advocate policies and practices to achieve zero waste, and more.

Rotten Truth (About Garbage) - An in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding municipal solid waste.

Sierra Club - A leading environmental organization with chapters in all 50 states and Canada.

Sustainability Institute - Dedicated to sustainable resource use, sustainable economics, and sustainable communities.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development - Promote sustainable development in decision-making internationally and within Canada.

WWF Global Network - A great environmental resource.

American Forest and Paper Association - Provides information on recycling wood and paper products. Includes resources for recycling coordinators and educational programs.

American Iron and Steel Institute - Steel recycling news and information.

Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers - Enhance the development and sustainability of the post-consumer plastics recycling industry.

Automotive Recyclers Association - An industry dedicated to the efficient removal and reuse of automotive parts as well as the safe disposal of inoperative vehicles.

Glass Packaging Institute - At the forefront of glass container recycling efforts.

Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries - An international trade association of scrap metal, paper, plastic, glass, rubber and textile recyclers.

NAPCOR - A national trade association that promotes PET recycling and the use of PET plastic. Includes information for starting a community PET recycling program.

National Recycling Coalition - The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) is the national voice for the recycling industry throughout the United States and around the world.

Recharger Magazine - A monthly publication dedicated to the office products recycling industry.

Recycled Organics Unit - Centre for organic resource management, information, R&D, demonstration, and training.

Recycling Manager - This recyclable materials price service, published every other week, provides U.S. materials prices by grade for aluminum and steel cans, scrap metals, paper, plastics and glass.

Steel Recycling Institute - An industry association that promotes the recycling of all steel products and educates others about the benefits of steel's infinite recycling cycle.

WasteAge.com - Serves 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 waste industry.

How to Compost - Articles and links about all aspects of composting.

Worm Digest - A quarterly newspaper about worms and worm composting (vermicomposting) on all levels world-wide.

A Happy Planet - Buy the very best in natural and naturally superior products for everyday use.

Conservatree - Reports the most up-to-date news on environmentally sound printing and writing papers.

Eco-Artware - Gifts from recycled, reused, and natural materials. Subscribe to a free newsletter including even more great gift ideas.

Ecosource Paper Inc. - Maker of recycled paper products.

Enviro-Bag - Clean plastic grocery sacks received from schools by Enviro-Bag are utilized in the production of Enviro-Bag Trash Bags.

Eureka! Recycled Papers - Maker of recycled paper products.

Recycled Products - A collection of web links to sellers of recycled products on the Internet.

Recycline, Inc. - Quality Products From Recycled Materials.

Sancor - Makers of Envirolet, a composting toilet system.

The Real Earth Environmental Company - Recycled Paper and other Eco-Products for Home and Office.

Treecycle Recycled Paper - Maker of recycled paper products.

Earth Day Groceries Project - School project to recycle a billion paper grocery bags.

Planet Pals - Let's learn to PRECYCLE. Precycling means we can preventing recycling by taking a little action before.

Quest of the Ringleaders - A cyber-adventure of the Ring Leader Recycling Program.

Roscoe's Recycle Room - Fun games, recycling facts and educational activities.

The Bag Bed - Finally a useful way to recycle your mountain of plastic bags.

The Imagination Factory - Creative ways for kids to recycle.

Earth Day Network - Find out about Earth Day events and activities, plus eco-information.

Earth's 911 - A public and private sector partnership to empower the public with community specific resources to improve their quality of life.

EcoWorld - Information and answers about Earth's energy & food supply, species, ecosystems and projects to preserve them.

EnviroLink - EnviroLink environmental organization directory.

Global Recycling Network - GRN is a free-access public site dedicated to recycling-related information.

Letsrecycle.com - The home of news and information for recyclers and all those involved in sustainable waste management in the UK.

NCSE's Population & Environment Linkages Service - A valuable information database for environmental students and professionals.

Recycle.com - The place to turn for recycling and composting expertise.

Recycler's World - A world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or materials.

Resource Recycling - Recycling news, links and trends.

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide - A starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information.

Buffalo Free Cycle - A Yahoo group for the Buffalo chapter of Free Cycle (www.freecycle.org).

Free Cycle - A grassroots movement to reuse unwanted items. Membership is free with one rule being that everything posted must be free.

Share the Technology - A computer recycling project.

Use Less Stuff - A bi-weekly newsletter from 1994 to 2000 including articles on recycling and what some companies are doing to help. Also included are 42 ways to Trim Your Holiday Wasteline.