Waste Management

by | Dec 19, 2012 | Eco

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Composting

  • BioLet Composting Toilets – Popular Composting Toilet
  • BUSH’S BEST COMPOST – TX landscape services compost provider.
  • Composting Guide  – VegWeb (Veggies Unite!) site guide borrowed from RotWeb. Has a Composting Resource List, composting fundamentals.
  • Compost Resource Page – Info on various aspects of composting, from home to large scale.
  • CORNELL Composting– A variety of composting educational materials and programs developed at Cornell University.
  • Rot Web Home Composting  – Basic information about home composting by Eric S. Johnson.

Composting Organizations

  • City Farmer’s Urban Agriculture Notes – Vancouver non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation (by Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture).
  • Composting Council of Canada  – (in English and French) national non-profit headquartered in Toronto, CCC advocates composting to government, industry and the public as a means of reducing waste. Site has a composting FAQ.

Composting Media, News, Events

Vermicomposting with Worms

  • Worm World – New Jersey Online’s “Yucky Site”  
  • TRNCC worm composting   – Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission publication 
  • Vermicomposting  – from the Compost Resource Page

Hazardous Waste

VISITT

  • VISITT  – EPA Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies.  
  • Vendor Info System for Innovative Treatment Technologies  – VISITT is a free Yellow Pages of Innovative Treatment Technologies and Vendors with cost and performance data on more than 300 hazardous waste treatment technologies.

HazMat

  • HAZMACON 1998 Santa Clara  – Conference in CA, USA 
  • Hazardous Materials  – Hazardous Materials Advisory Council, non-profit international trade association that promotes regulatory compliance in transportation of hazmat/dangerous goods. 
  • Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition  – Activist Group in CA, USA concentrating on hazardous materials use by the computer industry.

Incineration

PCBs, Dioxins, Furans

Landfill

Landfill Companies

Landfill Gas (LFG)

Geotextiles

Nuclear Waste

Recycling

  • Alles über Verpackungen – German packaging info.  
  • Consumer Recycling Guide: Recycling Obscure Materials  – Simple instructions on recycling computer floppy discs, computers, eyeglasses, smoke detectors, styrofoam packing, compact discs, cameras, holiday cards, batteries, household  goods, sneakers and synthetic carpets.  
  • European Recycling and the Environment  – Over 100 pages devoted to commercial recycling and materials reclamation. Recycling subjects covered include: aluminium and steel drinks cans, composting, household waste recovery, recovered paper markets, packaging recycling targets, plastic container recovery, scrap metal reprocessing, environmental legislation, motor vehicle dismantling, and construction waste. 
  • Operation: Landfill Elimination  – Personal website to promote waste reduction. 
  • Recyclers Info Deutschland – German recycling info  
  • Recyclers World  –  World wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used & surplus items or materials. 
  • Reduce Junk Mail – RadiKahl site with tips and tools to help you reduce unsolicited mail.
  • Rummaging through Northern California– Secondhand, Surplus & Salvage, consignment, thrift shops, flea markets, antiques, vintage, collectibles and all types of resale.

Recycling Batteries and Bulbs

  • Recycling Light Bulbs & Batteries – ABAG FAQ answers the question “How should one dispose of or recycle lightbulbs and batteries of all kinds?” 
  • FACT SHEET: BATTERY DISPOSAL  – Pro-Act, a US air force environmental information exchange

Recycling Building Materials

Recycling Links

Recycling Plastics

Recycling Programs

Recycling Wood

Paper Conservation

  • Crane– Stationery, invitations, cards and writing papers, all tree-free, manufacturers of U.S. currency paper.
  • PCW 100 Inc. Paper – Recycled paper and printing company.
  • ReThink Paper! – Earth Island Institute project to promote wood alternatives.
  • ReThink Paper’s PulpLinks Directory – Paper conservation links. 
  • Conservatree Web  –  information on recycled, tree-free and chlorine-free printing and writing papers from Conservatree Paper Company.

Recycling Organizations

Recycling Organizations California

  • East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use 
  • Generation Green  – Interactive Environmental Education, Dumpster Diversion Project 
  • Raft  – Resource Area For Teachers funnels business surplus materials to schools and community groups for creative learning and play. 
  • Internet Resale Directory  – Secondhand, Consignment, Antiques, Surplus & Salvage. 
  • SCRAP  – How to Start Your Own Re-use Facility 
  • Garbage Reincarnation  –  non-profit runs Reduce/Reuse/Recycle facilities such as RecycleTown. 
  • CRRA  – California Resource Recovery Association based in Sacramento is a non-profit working to expand markets for recycled materials, 
    promotes sustainable materials policies. 
  • Trashopia  – Encourage recycling and creative reuse through educational displays and events. Supports artists and environmental education programs in Contra Costa County and surrounding areas.

Reduction

  • Austrian Concepts for Waste Avoidance and Recycling   – Striedner J., Domenig M., et al.: VERMEIDUNGS – UND VERWERTUNGSKONZEPTE. MATERIALIEN ZUM UNDESABFALLWIRTSCHAFTSPLAN. (Concepts for Waste Avoidance and Recycling. Compiled for the Austrian Federal Waste Management Plan 1995.- English Summary)  
  • Avoiding PVC – How to Avoid PVC in Products and Packaging 
  • Internet Resale Directory  – Secondhand, Consignment, Antiques, Surplus & Salvage.
  • NO WASTE BY 2010  – Austrian waste strategy for waste avoidance and reduction.  
  • The Cygnus Group  – Information regarding the most efficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources. Thus, the focus is on source reduction and reuse, rather than just recycling.
  • Waste Less Trade Show: Reduce & Reuse – Links to other waste avoidance websites. 
  • GRN Waste Reduction Tips  – Bi-monthly publication shows organizations how to purchase less material and fewer supplies, reuse what is purchased, recycle what can’t be reused (while getting paid for it!), and reduce waste disposal costs. 

Remediation

  • AlfaWeb  – German remediation info from Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz   Baden-Württemberg 
  • Altlastensanierung Boden  – German remediation info from Recyclers-Info.de 
  • American Drainage Systems  US Geotextile company that does site remediation using Prefabricated Vertical Wick Drains (PVD) & Horizontal Strip Drains. 
  • GUT  – Ges. für Umwelttechnologie mbH – German remediation firm.  
  • International Technology Corporation (IT Corporation)  – Firm provides Environmental Management Services,  Remedial Design/Remedial Action Services, Value Engineering, Effective Project Management. 
  • OHM Corporation  – Public and private environmental remediation and project, program and construction management services.  
  • SGDA GmbH  – German remediation firm. 

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Media, News, Events

  • American Waste Digest – Magazine for the US waste industry. 
  • BioCycle  – Composting & Recycling, In Business: Sustainable Enterprises & Communities 
  • Waste News   – Website of weekly journal with the latest news in the solid waste industry (at least one update each weekday).  
  • Yahoo! list: Recycling Publications  – List of recycling publications. 
  • Yale Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy– By strategically commissioning papers from experts on topics that have been neglected in the discussion about solid waste policy, the Yale Program on Solid Waste Policy seeks to stimulate and disseminate scholarly research useful for a deeper understanding of solid waste management.

Waste Events

Companies

US Companies

German Companies

  • Abwfallwirtschaft.de – German waste industry website 
  • AUREC GmbH  – Reststoffverwertung durch Bergversatz (German company)
  • Duales System  – German national consumer packaging recycling enterprise 
  • IBBarfeld  – German consulting engineers (Grundwasser, Baugrunduntersuchung, Altlastensanierung, Abfallwirtschaft, Deponietechnik) 

Rethmann

Organizations

  • GRN NewsStand
  • ISWM – IEA Bioenergy – Task XIV: Integrated Solid Waste Management 

ISWA

US Organizations

  • Californians Against Waste (CAW)  – CAW is actively working towards a recycling economy in California. 
  • EPA Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response (OSWER)  – OSWER has all the governmetn acronyms you want: RCRA, EPCRA, CERCLA, CRF, USC,  and so on. 
  • SWANA  – The Solid Waste Association of North America; headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, their mission is to advance the practice of economically and environmentally sound solid waste management in North America.  
  • The Environmental Hotline: Earth’s 911  – Public/private partnership with the U.S. EPA, all 50 states andseveral committed organizations and companies. Hotline (1-800-Cleanup) and website put geographically specific environmental information at your fingertips (currently recycling and household product waste information) nationwide.

CIWMB

Waste Not

German Organizations