Resources

Office Recycling

Recycling is an important part of an integrated solid waste management plan. If your business or agency generates waste paper, then you can set up a successful office recycling program.

Sustainable Events Guide

The Colorado Sustainable Events Guide was designed for hosts and planners to help lessen negative impacts on the environment and make a positive contribution to the community and the planet. The content of the guide is drawn from best practices researched and the experience gained by the local Denver Greening Initiative of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Sample Recycling Curriculum

Lessons in Sustainable Waste Management, a recycling and solid waste curriculum, was originally developed as part of a solid waste planning effort for Chaffee, Custer, and Lake Counties .

Below are links to other Web sites that you may find useful.

• Environmental Organizations and Resources
• Governmental Web Sites
• Buy Recycled
• Educational Resources
• Other Sites

The following links are maintained by other public and private organizations. Please be aware that CAFR does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information.

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Environmental Organizations and Resources

• Aluminum Recycling
• Amazing Environmental Organizations Web Directory
• America Recycles Day - Annually promotes recycling on November 15
• American Beverage Association
• American Forest and Paper Association
• American Chemistry Council
• Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers
• Automotive Recyclers Association
• Basel Action Network (BAN)
• Built Green
• Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
• Colorado Environmental Coalition
• Colorado Recycles
• Colorado Campus Recycling Network
• Colorado Materials Exchange
  A statewide clearinghouse of non-hazardous surplus and durable goods.
• Co-Op America
• Earth Day Network
• Eco Directory
• EcoIQ
  Offers wide selection of media products including books, video, audio tapes, and online publications. Their products aim to help people align economic and ecology.
• EcoMall
• EJobs.org
• Environmental Education EE - Link
• Glass Packaging Institute
• Global Recycling Network
• Grassroots Recycling Network
• Green Building Certificate, Colorado State University
• Green Collar Economy
• Habitat for Humanity International
• Home Builders Association of Metro Denver
• How Green Is My town?
• Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI)
• International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER)
• Keep America Beautiful
• National Association for PET Container Resources
• National Recycling Coalition
• North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE)
• OurEarth
• Plastic Bag Recycling
• Polystyrene
• Product Stewardship Institute
• Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS)
• Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation
• Recyclers World - Associations Directory
• Recycling Data Network, Recycled/Green Product Resources
• RecyclingJobs.com
• Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Sierra Club
• Steel Recycling Institute
• Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)
• SWANA (Colorado Chapter)
• The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
• U.S. Composting Council
• Used Building Materials Exchange Index
• Wilderness Society
• World Conservation Union

Governmental Web Sites

• Archuleta County
• Aspen
• Boulder
• Boulder County
• Broomfield
• Castle Rock
• Colorado Waste Tire Grants Program (includes publication and application forms)
• Delta County
• Denver Recycles
• Durango
• El Paso County
• EPA's Office of Solid Waste
• Fort Collins
• Garfield County
• Golden
• Governor's Energy Office
• Grand County
• Gunnison County
• Lake County
• Larimer County Solid Waste Department
• Loveland
• Mesa County
• Montezuma County
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• National Waste Prevention Coalition
• Pitkin County
• Pueblo City and County Health Department
• Summit County
• Steamboat Springs
• Telluride
• Weld County
• Yampa Valley Recycling

Buy Recycled

• EPA's Waste Wise Buy-Recycled Resource Guide
• Amazing Recycled Products
  This Colorado company has quite an array of great items (blue jean, money and newspaper pencils, t-shirts, tote bags, bird houses, benches, office supplies are just a few).
• Eco Golf
  Biodegradable golf tees made from corn and will degrade within 1 year.
• Environmental Building News
  A subscription newsletter that has in-depth construction product reviews. Well researched and a must for construction specifiers.
• Future Solutions, Inc.
  Recycled content products.
• Global Recycling Network
  Dedicated to providing recycled-content product information and recycling related information.
• Green Disk
  High quality recycled disks.
• GreenSeal
  An independent rating organization that maintains a list of its certified products including cleaning products, paint, paper, and re-refined oil. The products featured are those GreenSeal has found to be environmentally preferable.
• Resources for Environmental Design Index
  More than 1,700 construction related products.
• Snowy River Enterprises
Recycled tire products
• The Center for a New American Dream
  A website containing information dealing with purchasing green content and/or recycling products.

Educational Resources

• Action for a Cleaner Tomorrow
  An activity-based, interdisciplinary curriculum supplement developed by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
• Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
  Serves all sectors of the Colorado community by increasing the effectiveness of environmental education (EE)
• Go Green Initiative
  A program that works to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses throughout the United States.
• New York Recycles
  Recycling lessons and activities for teachers and students developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
• Ollie's World
  Interactive sustainability resource for kids.
• Project Learning Tree
  An environmental education program for teachers, educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12.
• Roscoe's Recycle Room
  Fun games, recycling facts and educational activities.

Other Sites

• BioCycle Magazine
• Earth 911
• Garbage - How can my community reduce waste?
  (Annenberg/CPB Exhibits)
• Resource Recycling Magazine
• Sustainable Building Source Book
• Trash Talk
  
  An inspirational guide to saving time and money through better waste and resource management.
• Waste Age Magazine
• Waste News Magazine