This site has a small fraction of the available information on recycling. If there’s a topic that you’d like to find out more about, someone out there has probably written volumes on it. And someone else has set their expertise to music with dancing hamsters and CGI pyrotechnics. That’s why internet links rock.
Here are a few starting points to find more in-depth information:
The world’s shortest comprehensive recycling guide
How to organize a recycling program
A list of commonly recycled materials
How to dispose of tricky items
How to Start and Maintain a Compost Pile
How to start and maintain a compost pile
Get a quote for IT equipment disposal
Carpet Recycling
Keep your old carpet out of the landfill in Texas
RM Brokerage recycles carpet in the Washington DC area
SF Carpet Recycling is your sustainable carpet recycler in the Bay Area
Greenback Recycling offers carpet recovery services in the United Kingdom
Cell Phone Recycling
How to recycle or donate your cell phone
Find a phone recycling location
Recycle your phone with a conservation group
Raise money with a cell phone recycling drive
Here’s a rough price list of how much old cell phones are worth for charity groups
Computer Recycling / Donations
Help non-profit groups stay on a budget with surplus computers and peripherals
Donate your computer in under 90 seconds
Give an old Dinosaur new life!
Disassemble and sell the components from your old computer
How-to remove personal data from your cell phone, computer, or other devices before recycling them
Plastics Recycling
Sell your industrial surplus or waste plastic
Plastic shopping bag recycling
Creating an Office Recycling System
Cut costs with a printer cartridge recycling program
Find the right recycling containers for your office
Supply your office with recycled products
Paint Recycling
Easy ways to dispose of half-full paint cans
Why is paint treated like a dangerous pollutant?
Recycling Batteries
How to properly dispose of batteries
Statistics for battery recycling
Find a battery recycling center
Recycling Foam Packaging
The Mega-Monster Source list of Plastic Containers
Other Links
The Little Green People Show – Hosted by two of Chicago’s most respected environmental voices–Laurene von Klan and Jill Riddell of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum–each episode answers listener questions, offers expert advice, and delivers commentary on all the opportunities and challenges faced by the average urban dweller trying to go green.
Zero Waste Alliance – A non-profit formed from an alliance between universities, government, businesses, and other organizations working to develop, promote, and apply Zero Waste strategies.
Eco Friendly House – Making your home Environmentally Friendly
How to make your home more environmentally friendly and reduce your Ecological footprint. Information on Solar Power, Lights, Waste Water, Recycling, Garden, Green Buildings, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Saving Water, Environmental Issues and more. Help save the planet.
Green Batteries– Lots of helpful information on environmentally friendly NiMH and Li-ion rechargeable batteries and battery chargers plus great prices on nimh and lithium ion rechargeable batteries, chargers and accessories.
My Zero Waste – A family of four in the UK challenging themselves to create Zero Waste.
Sustainability Store – Directory of socially and environmentally responsible products and services for creating a sustainable future.
Scrap Metal, Scrap Metal prices, Plastic scrap, Scrap dealers – Scrap Metal, scrap metal prices, plastic scrap, aluminum scrap, scrap steel prices, scrap copper, scrap tire, scrap metal dealer, scrap metal buy and sell offers.
Rainwater Harvesting – The Garden Watersaver rainwater diverter takes all the hassle out of harvesting rainwater. It is the only diverter that allows one to hide the rain barrel and deactivates in seconds for winter conditions.
Close the Loop, LLC -Offers a wide variety of recycled products and green building materials such as rubber tiles and timbers for playgrounds and equestrian facilities, plastic post and rail fencing, mulches made from: rubber, cocoa shell, tumbled garden glass. Free bi-monthly E-newsletter, The LOOP.