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	10/29/2010	Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Packaging Fresh Tomatoes Using Life-Cycle Thinking & Assessment: A Sustainable Materials Management Demonstration Project	Publication
	Description: This report quantifies the environmental impacts associated with three different packaging options for fresh tomatoes, and also assesses the effect of different packaging options on the life-cycle impacts of growing, transporting, and retailing fresh tomatoes to consumers.
	09/01/2010	Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects for Students	Publication
	Description: This document provides students in grades 6-8 with ideas and resources for developing environmental science fair projects about reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials.
	08/01/2010	Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Practice the 3 Rs Inside and Out	Publication
	Description: This document describes ways to conserve natural resources and prevent climate change by practicing the 3 Rs - reduce, reuse, and recycle - in the kitchen, home office, garage, backyard, and on the go.
	03/01/2010	WasteWise Annual Awards Ceremony	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet provides the agenda and lists the award winners for the 2009 WasteWise awards ceremony.
	03/01/2010	WasteWise Re-TRAC	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet discusses WasteWise Re-TRAC, a data management and reporting system that can be used to track an organization's waste generation and reduction activities. Regardless of the number of facilities in the organization, WasteWise Re-TRAC enables users to track and standardize waste management data for the entire operation.
	10/01/2009	GreenScapes Activities List	Publication
	Description: This interactive, electronic document provides a list of simple, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions to increase resource efficiency. When integrated into site planning and management, these GreenScapes activities can help save money on labor, equipment, and supplies while still having a great looking and healthy landscape.
	09/01/2009	SMART BET (Saving Money and Reducing Trash Benefit Evaluation Tool)	Publication
	Description: This Excel-based tool is designed to help community waste managers decide whether unit-based pricing for solid waste management (also known as Pay-As-You-Throw or PAYT) is the right model for their town or city. SMART BET allows users, i.e., community waste managers, to input readily available information, such as tons of waste landfilled and recycled annually, local population, and landfill tip fees. The user may also provide a more detailed breakdown of the disposal and recycling streams, if this information is available. The tool then combines this information with nationwide average waste disposal data, typical SMART results, and greenhouse gas emission factors originally created for EPA’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM) to provide the greenhouse gas and cost savings that your community is likely to see after implementation of PAYT.
	09/01/2009	“Green Servicizing” for a More Sustainable US Economy: Key concepts, tools and analyses to inform policy engagement	Publication
	Description: This document describes the Green Servicizing concept; provides a working definition of high-potential Green Servicizing models; identifies ten such models and briefs their market status and environmental performance; provides an analysis and methodologies to assist in weighing policy engagement; and identifies possible next steps to begin more substantive engagement.
	06/01/2009	Sustainable Materials Management: The Road Ahead	Publication
	Description: This document suggests a roadmap for the future based on materials management—fulfilling human needs and prospering, while using less materials, reducing toxics, and recovering more of the materials used.
	12/01/2008	WasteWise 2008 Annual Report: Accelerating the Pace of Environmental Progress	Publication
	Description: This report recognizes the 15th year of WasteWise as EPA's flagship partnership program to reduce municipal solid waste (MSW) generated by businesses, organizations, and communities. The program has grown to include more than 2,100 partners and endorsers from every state, representing nearly 50 industry sectors. The report also highlights WasteWise tools and resources, new partners, partner achievements, and award winners.
	11/01/2008	Prácticas de Jardinería Ecológica: Planificador para las estaciones (Spanish - GreenScapes Seasonal Planner)	Publication
	Description: This document is the Spanish version of the GreenScapes Seasonal Planner (EPA530-F-07-045). This document provides a calendar with seasonal recommendations for watering, using pesticides and fertilizers, composting, and other practices to help homeowners GreenScape their lawns and gardens.
	05/01/2008	GreenScapes Seasonal Planner	Publication
	Description: This document provides a calendar with seasonal recommendations for watering, using pesticides and fertilizers, composting, and other practices to help homeowners GreenScape their lawns and gardens.
	11/01/2007	WasteWise 2007 Annual Report: Building Community and Business Partnerships	Publication
	Description: This report recognizes the 2007 WasteWise award winners for their voluntary efforts to prevent waste and recycle and discusses WasteWise’s current emphasis on fostering structured partnerships with community and business entities in an effort to reduce municipal waste.
	09/01/2007	Teach English, Teach about the Environment: A Resource for Teachers of Adult English for Speakers of Other Languages	Publication
	Description: This document can help instructors teach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to adult students while introducing basic concepts about the environment and individual environmental responsibility. These concepts can help the newly-arrived be part of cleaner and healthier communities by understanding and practicing the 3Rs of solid waste management: reduce, reuse, and recycle.
	07/01/2007	Working Together for a Healthy Environment: A Guide for Multi-Cultural Community Groups	Publication
	Description: This document is designed to help community-based organizations and community leaders or activists plan and execute community events that promote the 3Rs of solid waste management: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Community groups are in a unique position to take the lead in raising awareness about resource conservation, good solid waste management, and safeguarding the environment for future generations. This guide provides ideas for community events, such as workshops, radio events, and other campaigns, and resources for developing these events.
	02/01/2007	Tools to Reduce Waste in Schools	Publication
	Description: This document helps schools and school districts reduce the amount of waste that they generate. It discusses how to start a waste reduction program or expand an existing one. The guide will also describe how a waste reduction program can benefit schools, communities, and the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste.
	01/01/2007	Donate or Recycle Electronics: eCycle	Publication
	Description: This brochure describes the Plug-In To eCycling campaign and provides resources for recycling unwanted electronic equipment.
	01/01/2007	GreenScapes Tip Sheet	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet provides tips for GreenScaping to reduce the economic and environmental cost of waste materials, water, pesticides, fuels, and oils from landscaping and grounds keeping operations. These tips include ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rebuy when landscaping.
	10/01/2006	WasteWise 2006 Annual Report: Partnering for Success and Sustainability	Publication
	Description: This report recognizes the 2006 WasteWise award winners for their voluntary efforts to prevent waste and recycle, and discusses how WasteWise has expanded its reach.
	09/01/2006	GreenScapes Success Story: A Greener Green	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the use of green methods to maintain the grass on the golf course at the North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Illinois. Instead of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the club uses a 50-50 mix of nutrient-rich biosolids from the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary Sewer District and compost made from yard waste to keep the greens healthy and aesthetically pleasing.
	09/01/2006	GreenScapes Success Story: Adding Green to Queens Botanical Garden	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses how the Queens Botanical Garden (QBG) merged new technology with natural elements to reduce the environmental footprint of its newest buildings. QBG's award-winning building design incorporates components like a green roof, composting toilets, and a rainwater harvest system to lessen the impact of its construction and operations.
	09/01/2006	GreenScapes Success Story: EPA Facilities Reduce Water Consumption and Meet Goals	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses how innovative landscaping techniques at two EPA facilities are conserving water while helping the facilities meet federal environmental goals. The landscapes at the National Computer Center (NCC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and EPA Region 8's laboratory in Golden, Colorado, are designed to reduce the need for irrigation by using water-efficient designs and native plants suited to local conditions.
	09/01/2006	GreenScapes Success Story: Greenscaping From the Ground Up	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses Parrot Jungle Island's (PJI) environmentally sustainable landscaping project. The 18-acre park, located just south of Miami, Florida, completed an extensive four-year building plan, including elevation, vegetation, horticultural, irrigation, and cultivation changes. In the process, this GreenScapes Partner has shown that a holistic approach to landscape site development can be successful, cost-effective, and environmentally sound.
	09/01/2006	Solid Waste Management and Greenhouse Gases: A Life-Cycle Assessment of Emissions and Sinks; 3rd Edition	Publication
	Description: This report examines how municipal solid waste management and climate change are related. Management of municipal solid waste presents many opportunities for greenhouse gas emission reductions. Source reduction and recycling can reduce emissions at the manufacturing stage, increase forest carbon storage, and avoid landfill methane emissions. Combustion of waste allows energy recovery to displace fossil fuel-generated electricity from utilities, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the utility sector and landfill methane emissions. Diverting organic materials from landfills also reduces methane emissions.
	07/01/2006	El ciclo de vida de un balon de futbol (Spanish - The Life Cycle of a Soccer Ball)	Publication
	Description: This poster is the Spanish version of The Life Cycle of a Soccer Ball (EPA530-H-05-001). This poster illustrates how to reduce the environmental impacts of a soccer ball during each stage of its entire life cycle, including gathering the materials, preparing the materials, putting the pieces together, getting the soccer ball to the consumer, using the ball, and getting rid of the ball.
	07/01/2006	Putting Surplus Food to Good Use: A How-To Guide for Food Service Providers	Publication
	Description: This document helps food service providers start a food waste reduction and recovery program at their facilities. Food service providers can improve the environment and provide benefits to communities by reducing, reusing, and recycling uneaten or unused food rather than throwing it away.
	06/01/2006	GreenScaping: The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard	Publication
	Description: This document describes five steps to GreenScape your lawn, a set of landscaping practices that can improve the health and appearance of your lawn and garden while protecting and preserving natural resources.
	06/01/2006	Jardineria Ecologica: La manera facil de lograr un jardin mas verdoso y saludable (Spanish - GreenScaping: The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard)	Publication
	Description: This document is the Spanish version of GreenScaping: The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard (EPA530-K-06-002). This document describes five steps to GreenScape your lawn, a set of landscaping practices that can improve the health and appearance of your lawn and garden while protecting and preserving natural resources.
	05/01/2006	Make a Difference in Your School: A How-to Guide for Engaging Students in Resource Conservation and Waste Reduction	Publication
	Description: This document provides advice, ideas, and inspiration to teachers, school administrators, and others for planning a hands-on environmental day at school. It also provides ways to teach students about reducing waste, reusing materials instead of throwing them away, recycling, composting, and conserving natural resources and energy. EPA hopes that schools across the country will embrace the ideas presented in the document and involve their students in environmental studies and activities.
	05/01/2006	WasteWise: Preserving Resources, Preventing Waste	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet discusses WasteWise, a free, voluntary partnership program sponsored by EPA through which organizations reduce municipal solid waste and selection industrial wastes, benefitting their bottom line and the environment. The fact sheet provides information about how to become a WasteWise partner, technical assistance available through WasteWise, and the WasteWise endorser program.
	03/01/2006	Do the PC Thing: Donate Computers (Businesses)	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes how donating computers to schools, charities, and low-income individuals is a win-win situation for business and the community. Reusing computers benefits communities, helps us use valuable materials wisely, and keeps working PCs out of landfills.
	03/01/2006	Do the PC Thing: Donate Computers (Consumers)	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes how consumers can donate computers to schools, charities, and low-income individuals. Reusing computers benefits communities, helps us use valuable materials wisely, and keeps working PCs out of landfills.
	12/01/2005	WasteWise 2005 Annual Report: Forging Ahead	Publication
	Description: This report recognizes the 2005 WasteWise award winners for their voluntary efforts to prevent waste and recycle, and discusses how WasteWise is helping to achieve EPA's national recycling goals and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
	11/01/2005	The Life Cycle of a Soccer Ball	Publication
	Description: This poster illustrates how to reduce the environmental impacts of a soccer ball during each stage of its entire life cycle, including gathering the materials, preparing the materials, putting the pieces together, getting the soccer ball to the consumer, using the ball, and getting rid of the ball.
	10/01/2005	Resource Conservation Challenge: Green Initiatives - Electronics	Publication
	Description: This document describes one of the goals of the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC), targeting all phases of the electronics life cycle. The RCC’s main goal for electronics waste is to get manufacturers, retailers, consumers, and state and local governments to cooperate in a national plan that reduces the amount of toxic chemicals used in electronics, reduces the amount of energy used by electronic products, reduces the amount of manufacturing and consumer waste produced every year, and provides a future infrastructure for recycling and reusing old electronic equipment. The document also gives examples of RCC Partnerships that address electronics life cycles, and resources to learn more about green initiatives for electronics.
	08/01/2005	El Ciclo de Vida de un Teléfono Celular (Spanish - The Life Cycle of a Cell Phone) (Poster)	Publication
	Description: This poster is the Spanish version of The Life Cycle of a Cell Phone (EPA530-H-04-002). This poster illustrates the stages in the life cycle of a cell phone including materials extraction, materials processing, manufacturing, packaging and transportation, useful life, and end-of-life.
	08/01/2005	GreenScapes Success Story: Benefits of Native Landscaping	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the native landscaping installed by WinterCreek Restoration at the Century Park retail complex in central Oregon, which never needs fertilizer, pesticides, extensive watering, or mowing.
	08/01/2005	GreenScapes Success Story: Improving Highway Safety Through Erosion Control	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the use of organic and environmentally friendly compost-based erosion control techniques to address blowing sand from a steep sandy slope next to Interstate 84 in Glenns Ferry, Idaho, a problem that reduced visibility and created dangerous driving conditions that could shut down a stretch of the Interstate. Using an ""erosion blend"" compost from Utah-based Miller Companies, LC, GreenCover America's compost blankets and berms aim to control erosion through complete and rapid revegetation.
	06/01/2005	Don't "Waste" Your Chance To Do Your Share - How to Reduce Your Climate Footprint	Publication
	Description: This document discusses climate change, the link between greenhouse gases (GHGs) and waste, life cycle assessments (LCAs), ways to mitigate climate change, and WasteWise tools related to climate change.
	05/01/2005	GreenScapes: Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping	Publication
	Description: This document describes GreenScapes, environmentally-friendly designs for landscaping that can help conserve natural resources, prevent waste and pollution, and save money.
	12/01/2004	America's Marketplace Recycles: A Guide to Waste Reduction at Shopping Centers	Publication
	Description: This guide was created by EPA, in collaboration with the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), to help shopping centers assess their waste management practices and identify opportunities to reduce waste disposal, increase reuse and recycling, save money, and contribute to their local communities. This guide also serves as a resource to local and state recycling coordinators to work with shopping centers in their jurisdictions to design and implement waste prevention and recycling programs.
	10/01/2004	WasteWise Annual Report, 2004: Sustaining Excellence	Publication
	Description: This report recognizes the 2004 WasteWise award winners for their voluntary efforts to prevent waste and recycle, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the WasteWise program.
	09/01/2004	The New Wave in Electronics: eCycling	Publication
	Description: This document discusses how consumers can reuse or recycle old electronics, or eCycle, including ways to eCycle, where to eCycle, and the benefits of eCycling.
	09/01/2004	Vayamos de Compras Verdes (Spanish - Let's Go Green Shopping)	Publication
	Description: This publication is the Spanish translation of Let's Go Green Shopping (EPA530-K-04-003). It provides tips and resources for "green purchasing." Green purchasing means shopping with the environment in mind by buying products that help conserve natural resources, save energy, and prevent waste or by not buying things that aren't needed. This document is part of the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC), which calls on all Americans to prevent pollution, promote recycling and reuse, and conserve energy and materials.
	08/01/2004	Reducing Waste When You Travel: Making Environmental Choices	Publication
	Description: This document suggests ways to reduce waste, conserve resources, and minimize the overall environmental impact when traveling without sacrificing comfort or convenience.
	08/01/2004	The Life Cycle of a Cell Phone (Poster)	Publication
	Description: This poster illustrates the stages in the life cycle of a cell phone including materials extraction, materials processing, manufacturing, packaging and transportation, useful life, and end-of-life.
	04/01/2004	Let's Go Green Shopping	Publication
	Description: This document provides tips and resources for "green purchasing." Green purchasing means shopping with the environment in mind by buying products that help conserve natural resources, save energy, and prevent waste or by not buying things that aren't needed.
	04/01/2004	Setting Up a Home Office: Making Environmental Choices	Publication
	Description: This document provides some simple ideas for maintaining an environmentally friendly home office with energy and resource saving tips for office equipment, paper, writing tools, and furniture.
	04/01/2004	The Power of Change: Protecting the Environment for the Next Generation (kit)	Publication
	Description: This free kit of resources explains how to reduce waste, conserve our natural resources, and save energy. The kit is part of the "Power of Change" campaign, which teaches older Americans what they can do to help reduce waste and protect the environment for the next generation. The kit includes the publications Volunteer for Change: A Guide to Environmental Community Service (EPA530-K-01-002); Voluntarios para el Cambio: Una Guia para el Servicio Comunitario Ambiental (Spanish - Volunteer for Change: A Guide to Environmental Community Service) (EPA530-K-01-002s); Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse: Tips for Consumers Who Change Their Own Motor Oil and Oil Filters (EPA530-F-94-008); Recoleccion de Aceite Usado Para Reciclaje o Reutilización (Spanish - Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse) (EPA530-F-94-008S); Household Hazardous Waste: Steps to Safe Management (EPA530-F-92-031); Desechos Domesticos Peligrosos: Pasos Para Un Manejo Seguro (Spanish - Household Hazardous Waste: Steps to Safe Management) (EPA530-F-92-031s); Protect Yourself, Protect Others: Safe Options for Home Needle Disposal (EPA530-K-04-004); Moving Out, Moving In: Making Environmental Choices When You Move (EPA530-K-04-002); A Collection of Solid Waste Resources on CD-ROM, 2004 Edition: Design a World with Less Waste (EPA530-C-04-001); Setting Up a Home Office: Making Environmental Choices (EPA530-F-04-007); and Reducing Waste When You Travel: Making Environmental Choices (EPA530-F-04-019).
	03/01/2004	Reutilizacion + Reciclaje = Reduccion de Desechos: Una Guia para Escuelas y Grupos (Spanish - Reuse + Recycling = Waste Reduction: A Guide for Schools and Groups)	Publication
	Description: This publication is the Spanish translation of Reuse + Recycling = Waste Reduction: A Guide for Schools and Groups (EPA530-K-03-001). This document discusses how waste reduction efforts save money, energy, and natural resources, and educates children and young adults about how solid waste affects their lives and the environment.
	02/01/2004	Haciendo Aún Más Verde (""Greenscaping"") su Césped y Jardín (Spanish - ""Greenscaping"" Your Lawn and Garden)	Publication
	Description: This document is the Spanish version of ""Greenscaping"" Your Lawn and Garden (EPA530-K-03-002). This document provides simple waste reduction practices to improve not only your lawn and garden, but also the environment.
	02/01/2004	Moving Out, Moving In: Making Environmental Choices When You Move	Publication
	Description: This document suggests environmentally safe alternatives to throwing away unwanted possessions when moving out and ways to purchase new items with the environment in mind when moving in. It also discusses how to identify items for reuse, recycling, and special disposal, and suggests resources for more information about donating goods, reuse and recycling, and buying recycled goods.
	11/01/2003	Be Waste Aware -Waste Reduction Resources and Tools for Students	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet discusses municipal solid waste and provides information that can be used for an environmental science class, a science fair project, or to help start a waste reduction program in a school or community. The resources also provide information to better understand the type, amount, and impact of solid waste in the world.
	10/01/2003	Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Bulletin: Fall 2003	Publication
	Description: The Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. This edition celebrates ten years of growth and success of the PAYT program.
	10/01/2003	WasteWise 2003 Annual Report: Celebrating our Partners	Publication
	Description: This document celebrates businesses that are partners of the WasteWise program, and briefly explains what each company is doing.
	09/22/2003	PRODUCT PACKAGING WASTE PREVENTION AND RECYCLING	Memo
	Description: EPA has no legal authority to establish regulations to use packaging with less environmental impacts. EPA works with states, communities, and businesses to encourage voluntary reduction of solid waste and educates citizens to choose products with packaging that is less environmentally harmful. Citizens can contact packaging associations and manufacturers about packaging standards and encourage companies to not use packaging with negative environmental impacts. The Federal government buys products made from recycled materials and issues recommendations on buying products with recycled content and other favorable attributes. Some states have legislation regarding product packaging.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Abandoned Plastics Find a Home!	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses Agri-Plas, Inc., the only agricultural plastic recycling center in the nation that collects all types of plastic.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Bobsledding on Bottles	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the use of one million milk jugs and detergent bottles to make new and improved platforms for bobsled, luge, and skeleton racing at the site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, in the first application of recycled plastic lumber specifically designed for a commercial structure.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Compost as Cure-All	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses compost's newest application as erosion control by Filtrexx International, LLC. In addition to using compost as a soil amendment, pollution filter, and disease control, the company’s full-time business is using compost to prevent erosion along highways, at construction sites, and other transportation and building locations.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Food Scraps and Wine: An Agreeable Combination	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses Jepson Prairie Organics, which makes compost from the food scraps of more than 1,500 food-related businesses and thousands of residents in San Francisco. The compost is used on vineyards throughout Northern California’s wine country to enhance the quality of the soil.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Golden Compost	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which runs one of the most advanced, widespread compost-use programs in the United States and has conducted more than 20 demonstrations across the state proving the benefits of compost.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: New Jersey's Milk Jug Bridge	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the first bridge made entirely from recycled plastic, which was constructed over the Mullica River in Wharton State Park, New Jersey.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Not Your Typical Compost Feedstock	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses the decision of Aspen Skiing Company to take down two buildings using deconstruction rather than demolition. By deconstructing, the company took the buildings apart and removed useable items, an alternative to sending all of their construction and demolition waste to a landfill that saved the company more than $42,000 in avoided disposal costs.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Parks Abound with Plastic Lumber	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses how two Midwest state parks have discovered the long-term benefits of recycled plastic lumber as a construction material. In Indiana and Minnesota, structures made from recycled milk jugs are proving to be an environmentally preferable - and economic - alternative to wood products.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: Recycled Rubber Raises the Road	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses construction of the new Mud Pond Inlet Bridge by the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) by building with waste. To support the roadbed, the design team called for nearly 170,000 previously used shredded tires 20 percent of the waste tires generated in Maine in a year along with geotextiles, a synthetic material that allows the exchange of water and air. The designers also incorporated old bridge railings and roadside guard rails from an ongoing highway bridge rehabilitation project rather than using new metal.
	07/01/2003	GreenScapes Success Story: These Tires Were Made for Walkin’	Publication
	Description: This GreenScapes Success Story discusses how Los Angeles County, California, has recently discovered the beauty and utility of old tires. Plagued by 10 million waste tires a year, the county has successfully saved landfill space by recycling tire rubber into pathways, playground surfaces, and flooring tile throughout its district.
	05/01/2003	WasteWise Resource Management: Innovative Solid Waste Contracting Methods	Publication
	Description: This document, developed by EPA’s WasteWise Program, explains the demonstrated additional cost savings and improved waste reduction through an innovative contracting strategy coined "resource management” (RM) and guides WasteWise partners and other organizations through the process of establishing a baseline for current waste streams, issuing a request for proposals, and designing a comprehensive waste management contract that utilizes RM. The appendices provide useful examples, such as a Request for Proposal template and compensation options.
	04/01/2003	""Greenscaping"" Your Lawn and Garden	Publication
	Description: This document provides simple waste reduction practices to improve not only your lawn and garden, but also the environment.
	03/01/2003	WasteWise Partnership Benefits Climate Change	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes the WasteWise Program and explains how WasteWise helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
	02/01/2003	Your Life, Your World, Your Choices: Everything You Do Can Make a Difference! (kit)	Publication
	Description: This kit is a collection of materials that show how individuals can make a difference. These materials can be used in schools, at home, or with community groups, and can help you: increase your awareness of how your personal decisions affect the environment; make more informed choices in your day-to-day life to help protect the environment; volunteer with community groups, nonprofit groups, government agencies, or others to help promote or solve an environmental issue; and learn about environmental careers. The kit includes the publications Volunteer for Change: A Guide to Environmental Community Service (EPA530-K-01-002); Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects (EPA530-K-00-008); Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom (EPA530-K-02-001); You Can Make a Difference: Learn about Careers in Waste Management (EPA530-F-02-011); "Greenscaping" Your Lawn and Garden (EPA530-K-03-002); Reuse + Recycling = Waste Reduction: A Guide for Schools and Groups (EPA530-K-03-001); The Life Cycle of a CD or DVD poster (EPA530-H-03-002); A Collection of Solid Waste Resources on CD-ROM 2003 Edition (EPA530-C-03-001); Be Waste Aware -Waste Reduction Resources and Tools for Students (EPA530-F-03-056); The Life Cycle of a Cell Phone poster (EPA530-H-04-002); and The New Wave of Electronics: eCycling (EPA530-F-04-020).
	01/01/2003	Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Bulletin: Winter 2003	Publication
	Description: The PAYT Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. This issue focuses on offering hope for New York City's Recycling Program.
	11/19/2002	WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING IN THE UNITED STATES	Memo
	Description: Handling trash is primarily the responsibility of state and local governments. EPA does not have the legal authority to require recycling or waste prevention. EPA relies on voluntary approaches to inspire recycling. Puzzled About Recycling’s Value? Look Beyond the Bin (EPA530-K-98-008) explains recycling’s benefits, including the conservation of natural resources, the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions, and the expansion of the U.S. job market. The federal government tries to buy items that are made from recycled materials.
	11/04/2002	REDUCTION, RECYCLING, AND INTERSTATE TRANSPORT OF SOLID WASTE	Memo
	Description: EPA promotes waste recycling and reduction, especially through the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC). Waste should be safely managed wherever it is sent.
	10/31/2002	SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES	Memo
	Description: Handling trash is primarily the responsibility of state and local authorities. Federal laws currently do not allow EPA to establish regulations requiring people to recycle trash. EPA relies on voluntary approaches by cooperating with states, communities, and businesses to encourage reuse, waste reduction, and recycling.
	09/01/2002	WasteWise 2002 Annual Report	Publication
	Description: The Annual Report highlights WasteWise program accomplishments and features award winners for 2002.
	09/01/2002	WasteWise Update: Global Warming is a Waste!	Publication
	Description: This issue of the WasteWise Update discusses how EPA is upgrading its efforts to incorporate climate change education and technical assistance throughout the WasteWise program. It provides an overview of the climate change and waste link and highlights WasteWise partners that have achieved greenhouse gas reductions by reusing products, recycling, and creating products with fewer raw materials.
	08/15/2002	INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS FOR AUTOMOBILE RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL	Memo
	Description: The EPA Product Stewardship team is working in voluntary partnerships with several sectors, including the carpet and electronics industry, to address environmental problems. EPA is aware of the role that automobile manufacturers, suppliers, and recyclers have in solving problems related to the recycling and disposal of automobile components. The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) is working to improve regulatory compliance at automobile salvage yards.
	07/01/2002	Fact Sheet: Cover Up With Compost	Publication
	Description: This document discusses landfill gas. Natural decomposition processes in landfills emit "landfill gas." Approximately half of that landfill gas is methane, the second leading greenhouse gas emitted in the United States. Landfill methane emissions are of national concern because they are the largest source (approximately 33 percent) of anthropogenic methane emissions in the United States.
	07/01/2002	Fact Sheet: Cutting-Edge Software to Cut Emissions	Publication
	Description: In 1998, the United States generated 220 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW). The landfilling and combustion of this waste resulted in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 65 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE). Today, a variety of software programs and models are available to help managers and planners reduce emissions at state, local, business, and institutional levels. These tools can enable them to determine the impact of their practices on climate change and the environment, as well as strategies to reduce those impacts.
	07/01/2002	Fact Sheet: Moving Targets	Publication
	Description: This document discusses greenhouse gas emissions from the collection and transportation of wastes. Greenhouse gas emissions from the collection and transportation of waste and recyclables equaled 918,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE) in 1997--accounting for 9 percent of the total net greenhouse gas emissions from waste management that year. These emissions result largely from the combustion of diesel in vehicles that transport mixed waste and recyclables from the waste source to transfer, disposal, or recovery facilities.
	07/01/2002	Fact Sheet: Recycling the Hard Stuff	Publication
	Description: Of the estimated 22.4 million tons of plastics produced in the United States in 1998, only about 5.4 percent were recovered for recycling. Plastics used in durable goods (such as cars, electronics, and appliances) account for the largest proportion by weight of plastics in U.S. municipal solid waste (MSW). However, the mixed waste stream characteristic of these harder, engineered plastics are difficult to separate and, thus, complex to recycle. New separation technologies could increase recycling rates for plastics significantly.
	07/01/2002	Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Bulletin: Summer 2002	Publication
	Description: The PAYT Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. This issue focuses on global climate change and Pay-As-You-Throw.
	07/01/2002	Success Story: Getting On The Books With Waste Reduction	Publication
	Description: This document discusses how more and more companies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are recognizing the climate benefits of alternative waste management strategies, such as recycling and reuse. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Program provides a means for individuals, companies, and organizations to report their emissions reductions from recycling programs and other waste management activities.
	07/01/2002	Success Story: Turning Garbage Into Gold	Publication
	Description: This document discusses the fact that organic waste comprises a significant portion of the U.S. municipal solid waste (MSW) stream. EPA estimates that the nation's MSW contained 85.7 million tons of paper and paperboard in 1999, 25.2 million tons of food discards, 27.7 million tons of yard trimmings, and 12.3 million tons of wood--adding up to 66 percent of the total waste stream. Similarly, compostable waste in Massachusetts accounts for as much as 70 percent of the state's total MSW by weight.
	03/01/2002	Reusable News, Spring 2002	Publication
	Description: This issue of Reusable News contains articles on Wastewise partnering with Climate Neutral to reduce greenhouse gases and measuring the energy benefits of recycling.
	03/01/2002	WasteWise Update: Resource Management -- Strategic Partnerships for Resource Efficiency	Publication
	Description: This issue of the WasteWise Update discusses why resource management (RM) is a strategic alternative to traditional disposal contracting that emphasizes and rewards resource efficiency (i.e., prevention, reuse, recycling) rather than waste disposal. It highlights tactics and performance of RM contracting by three WasteWise partners.
	02/01/2002	WasteWise Update: Building for the Future	Publication
	Description: This issue of the WasteWise Update discusses how resource efficient building emphasizes the reduction of construction and demolition (C&D) debris; incorporation of waste prevention, durability, and recyclability into building design; and the use of resource-efficient building materials. It provides an overview of resource-efficient and green buildings and a comprehensive list of resources.
	01/01/2002	Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Bulletin: Winter 2002	Publication
	Description: The PAYT Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. This issue focuses on Large Cities and Pay-As-You-Throw.
	11/01/2001	Multifamily Recycling: A National Study	Publication
	Description: This document discusses an EPA-funded national survey by the US Conference of Mayors and ECODATA, Inc. that compared single family and multifamily recycling services, and documents costs, diversion rates, and program characteristics of recycling programs in multifamily households.
	11/01/2001	WasteWise Seventh Year Progress Report	Publication
	Description: This progress report provides an update on the accomplishments of the WasteWise program. The report provides an overview of the total waste reduction results achieved by the WasteWise program, describes the benefits of the membership, and presents profiles of the 2001 WasteWise Award Winners.
	09/05/2001	POLLUTION AND LITTER CONTROL	Memo
	Description: The United States now recycles over one quarter of household garbage due to efforts by citizens, community groups, businesses and governments. State and local governments further recycling through curbside recycling programs. Keep America Beautiful is one organization working to prevent litter in towns and cities.
	08/14/2001	BENEFITS OF BIOMASS ENERGY	Memo
	Description: EPA recognizes the environmental benefits of renewable energy sources and biomass energy is an important component of the Administration’s National Energy Plan. A multi-agency effort known as the Biomass Initiative is coordinating and promoting federal biobased products and biomass energy research and development. Federal funding opportunities for biomass technologies may be available through the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, the 504 Certified Development Company Loan Program, or the Loan Guarantee Program.
	03/21/2001	BIOPLEX WASTE-TO-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY	Memo
	Description: In 1989, EPA published an “Agenda for Action” that proposed a solid waste management hierarchy of waste prevention, recycling, and waste disposal. Communities should implement an integrated solid waste management plan according to their individual needs. EPA research has shown that recycling and source reduction activities produce greater greenhouse gas savings than energy recovery from waste-to-energy facilities or landfill gas-to-energy projects.
	12/01/2000	Diversion en la Feria Cientifica: Disenando Proyectos Cientificos Ambientales (Spanish - Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects)	Publication
	Description: This is the Spanish translation of Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects. This booklet is intended to provide students in grades 6 through 8 with ideas and resources for developing environmental science fair projects, specifically in the areas of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials.
	12/01/2000	Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects	Publication
	Description: This booklet is intended to provide students in grades 6 through 8 with ideas and resources for developing environmental science fair projects, specifically in the areas of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials.
	10/06/2000	RECYCLING AND SOURCE REDUCTION REQUIREMENTS FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINERS	Memo
	Description: Currently EPA does not have statutory authority under RCRA to establish regulations for recycling or source reduction or to mandate a national deposit-refund system for beverage containers. EPA has set national goal to recycle 35% of municipal solid waste (MSW) by 2005.
	08/01/2000	WasteWise Sixth Year Progress Report	Publication
	Description: This progress report provides an update on the accomplishments of the WasteWise program. The report provides an overview of the total waste reduction results achieved by the WasteWise program, describes the benefits of the membership, and presents profiles of the 2000 WasteWise Award Winners.
	03/21/2000	MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT	Memo
	Description: EPA promotes integrated waste management approach. Management options include source reduction, recycling, combustion and landfilling.
	03/01/2000	WasteWise Update: Moving Toward Sustainability	Publication
	Description: This issue of the WasteWise Update defines and describes the evolution of environmental thinking from end-of-pipe pollution control solutions to more sophisticated concepts such as industrial ecology and sustainability. It also features examples of WasteWise partners who have made a commitment toward becoming a sustainable business.
	12/01/1999	Introducing the WasteWise Web Site	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes the various features of the WasteWise Web site.
	11/03/1999	INCREASED RECYCLING AND BETTER MANAGEMENT OF WASTES FROM US SHIPS AND SUBMARINES	Memo
	Description: EPA fosters waste reduction and recycling through educational campaigns, challenge programs and grants to governments and agencies. The WasteWise program works with businesses to promote recycling and source reduction. EPA’s Ocean Dumping Program and U.S. Navy offer information on management of waste aboard oceangoing vessels.
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Bellevue, Washington	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Bellevue, Washington. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Ann Arbor, Michigan	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Bergen County, New Jersey	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Bergen County, New Jersey. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Chatham, New Jersey	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Chatham, New Jersey. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Clifton, New Jersey	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Clifton, New Jersey. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Crockett, Texas	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Crockett, Texas. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Dover, New Hampshire	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Dover, New Hampshire. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Falls Church, Virginia	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Falls Church, Virginia. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Fitchburg, Wisconsin	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Leverett, Massachusetts	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Leverett, Massachusetts. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Loveland, Colorado	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Loveland, Colorado. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Madison, Wisconsin	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Madison, Wisconsin. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Portland, Oregon	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Portland, Oregon. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Ramsey County, Minnesota	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Ramsey County, Minnesota. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: San Jose, California	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in San Jose, California. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Seattle, Washington	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Seattle, Washington. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Visalia, California	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Visalia, California. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	10/01/1999	Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How: Worcester, Massachusetts	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlight waste reduction efforts and strategies as used in Worcester, Massachusetts. This fact sheet is included in the fact sheet packet, Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How (EPA530-F-99-017).
	09/08/1999	ZINC AS A PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE, AND TOXIC (PBT) CHEMICAL	Memo
	Description: Zinc was proposed as one of the 53 chemicals on the RCRA Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) list. Comments on the proposed list suggest EPA should use bioavailability rather than persistence in evaluating metals, and that EPA should reevaluate the screening and ranking steps of the methodology. These comments will be considered before EPA finalizes the list by January 2000 (SEE ALSO: 63 FR 60332; 11/9/98; RPC# 7/14/99-02).
	08/01/1999	WasteWise: Fifth Year Progress Report	Publication
	Description: This progress report provides an update on the accomplishments of the WasteWise program. The report provides an overview of the total waste reduction results achieved by the WasteWise program, describes the benefits of the membership, and presents profiles of the 1999 WasteWise Award Winners.
	06/01/1999	Turn on Savings! WasteWise Promotional	Publication
	Description: Through the WasteWise program, more than 850 of America's leading businesses, institutions, and governments are demonstrating that solid waste reduction cuts costs and increases efficiency. This document discusses the many benefits of joining the WasteWise program. It includes a registration form for organizations who want to become a WasteWise partner.
	05/10/1999	SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY	Memo
	Description: EPA’s three tiered integrated hierarchy for managing solid waste consists of source reduction as the first and preferred waste management option, recycling, and combustion and/or landfilling.
	01/01/1999	Source Reduction and Your Community: An Introduction to EPA's Planning Packet	Publication
	Description: The fact sheet provides a concise introduction to source reduction and reviews how communities may use the program manual to achieve source reduction. This fact sheet is included in the Source Reduction Program Potential Manual Planning Packet (EPA530-E-97-001).
	01/01/1999	Source Reduction Program Potential Manual: A Planning Packet - Fact Sheet	Publication
	Description: This insert describes the Source Reduction Program Potential Manual Planning Packet (EPA530-E-97-001) materials, and provides instructions for installing and removing the ReduceIt software. This fact sheet may be ordered separately using EPA530-F-99-005, but is included automatically as part of the Planning Packet.
	01/01/1999	Will a Source Reduction Program Work in Your Community?	Publication
	Description: This brochure describes the EPA resources available to assist communities in developing source reduction programs, including the Source Reduction Program Potential Manual and ReduceIt software.
	12/01/1998	Municipal Solid Waste Source Reduction: A Snapshot of State Initiatives	Publication
	Description: Examines state source reduction activities across the U.S. Highlights state goals or mandates that call for source reduction. Describes source reduction activities, reuse programs, and procurement guidelines in place within state operations and facilities. Addresses residential programs targeted to consumers and households. Presents state efforts to assist the business community in learning about source reduction options. Relates state assistance to municipal source reduction programs, primarily in the form of grants and other technical assistance. Includes exhibits and tables.
	03/01/1998	Availability of Uncoated Printing and Writing Papers Containing 30 Percent Postconsumer Fiber	Publication
	Description: This report summarizes the results of research conducted on the availability of uncoated printing and writing papers containing 30 percent postconsumer fiber. The report discusses the purpose and scope, methodology, findings, and conclusions of the research. Detailed research results for ten grades of paper are presented in tabular form. The report also contains a list of federal government and paper industry contacts, an outline of the research information needs, and a list of companies that could not be reached.
	09/01/1997	Source Reduction Program Potential Manual: A Planning Tool	Publication
	Description: This manual is designed to help local solid waste managers determine the potential impact of various source reduction options. The manual examines the program potential, or the portion of a waste stream category that could be addressed by a specific source reduction program. The manual is included in Source Reduction Program Potential Manual: A Planning Packet (EPA530-E-97-001).
	04/01/1997	Pay-As-You-Throw Fact Sheet: Throw Away Less and Save	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet discusses the benefits and disadvantages of using pay-as-you-throw programs in your community.
	01/01/1996	FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON COMPOSTING	Question & Answer
	Description: Composting can be a source reduction or recycling. A federal permit is not required for composting facilities. Many markets are available for compost products. Discusses the percentage of yard trimmings recycled in municipal compost piles.
	12/01/1995	Source Reduction Bibliography	Publication
	Description: This document outlines source reduction resources and publications that are available to municipal solid waste planners, policy makers, and others involved in managing or implementing programs on waste prevention. The bibliography is organized into ten source reduction topics, including Business and Industrial Program Development/Guidance, Community Source Reduction Program Development/Guidance, Materials Exchange, Policy/Legislation, and Variable Rates/Unit Pricing.
	09/15/1995	Environmental Fact Sheet: Paperless Office Campaign Reduces EPA Paper Use by 15 Percent	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes EPA's Paperless Office Campaign to reduce consumption of office paper by 15 percent, discusses methods used and how results were achieved, and includes success stories and how to implement a paper prevention program.
	09/01/1995	Decision Maker's Guide to Solid Waste Management: Volume 2	Publication
	Description: This document offers solid waste management practitioners detailed information to understand the key technical, economic, political, and social issues that must be addressed to develop effective waste management programs. Sections address public education and involvement, facility siting, factors to consider in developing a waste management program, collection and transfer, source reduction, recycling, composting, combustion, and land disposal.
	09/01/1995	Environmental Fact Sheet: Purchasing and Maintaining Retread Passenger Tires	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes how fleet managers and vehicle operators can help reduce the quantity of scrap tires generated annually through waste prevention, proper tire maintenance, and tire retreading, and also includes tips for proper tire maintenance.
	03/15/1995	Report to Congress on Flow Control and Municipal Solid Waste	Publication
	Description: This report discusses flow controls, defined as legal authorities used by state and local governments to designate where municipal solid waste (MSW) must be taken for processing, treatment, or disposal. This report presents a comparative review of states with and without flow control authority, identifies the impact of flow control ordinances on protection of human health and the environment, and characterizes the impact of flow control on the development of state and local waste management capacity and on the achievement of state and local goals for source reduction, reuse, and recycling. Appendices include a summary of public comments on flow control; legal decisions concerning MSW flow controls; a summary matrix of state flow control authorities; flow control case studies; and technical analyses of waste generation, composting, recycling, waste-to-energy, and landfills.
	01/01/1995	Reusable News (Winter 1995)	Publication
	Description: This issue of Reusable News reports on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and recovery rate, features an interview with the Federal Environmental Executive, and includes articles on Washington State's ""buy recycled"" campaign, construction and demolition waste reduction, and EPA's Source Reduction Mega Match program. This issue also includes an insert listing EPA publications on MSW.
	11/01/1994	Environmental Fact Sheet: EPA Releases RCRA Hazardous Waste Minimization National Plan	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet announces the release of EPA's final Hazardous Waste Minimization National Plan. The Plan sets national goals for reducing constituents in hazardous waste that are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic. The Plan consists of five national objectives: (1) development of a framework for setting national priorities; (2) promotion of multimedia environmental benefits and prevention of cross media transfers; (3) demonstration of a strong preference for source reduction; (4) clear definition and tracking of progress, promoting accountability for EPA, states, and industry; and (5) involvement of citizens in waste minimization implementation decisions.
	07/01/1994	WASTE MINIMIZATION AND RECYCLING ACTIVITIES THAT RESEMBLE CONVENTIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES	Question & Answer
	Description: Burning for energy recovery and use in a manner constituting disposal do not qualify as waste minimization. Source reduction involves decreasing the amount of hazardous substance entering the waste stream. Recycling involves use, reuse, or reclamation.
	04/15/1994	Innovative Methods of Managing Environmental Releases at Mine Sites	Publication
	Description: Describes source reduction and recycling practices and innovative techniques for waste management currently used in mining. Discusses process control to produce purer products and production of new salable products while reducing hazardous constituents in the waste stream. Examines recycling opportunities unique to mining, such as slag reprocessing, tailings reprocessing, pipe recycling/reuse, and recycling mine tires. Lists technical contacts familiar with each technology described.
	09/15/1993	Reporting on Municipal Solid Waste: A Local Issue	Publication
	Description: Presents background information to assist print and broadcast media in understanding municipal solid waste (MSW) issues. Examines the role of federal, state, and local governments in MSW management; options for solid waste management (source reduction, recycling, incineration, and landfilling); and regulations for solid waste landfills. Includes information sources, major laws affecting MSW management, MSW management state-by-state, and compounds and metals for groundwater detection monitoring.
	05/18/1993	EPA Administrator Browner Announces New Hazardous Waste Reduction and Combustion Strategy	Publication
	Description: Documents Administrator Carol M. Browner's new hazardous waste reduction and combustion strategy in a press release format. The strategy prioritizes waste reduction and sets reduction guidelines for hazardous waste producers. Provides quotes from Browner's announcement.
	10/15/1992	Environmental Fact Sheet: Municipal Solid Waste Prevention in Federal Agencies	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet highlights waste prevention opportunities in federal agencies, explains the principles of waste prevention, and provides examples of successful federal programs.
	07/15/1992	Environmental Fact Sheet: Mercury in the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Stream	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet describes EPA's examination of the major sources of mercury in the MSW stream, such as batteries and paint residues. EPA predicts a dramatic decrease in mercury discards in the next several years due to source reduction and recycling efforts.
	01/01/1992	Reusable News (Winter 1992)	Publication
	Description: This issue of Reusable News announces EPA's options to standardize recycling marketing claims in the cover story. It also includes articles about President Bush's executive order that requires federal agency recycling, Illinois communities that serve as source reduction models, and unique solutions to municipal solid waste problems on the Alaskan Tundra.
	09/15/1991	Environmental Fact Sheet: Municipal Landfill Regulations Mean Safer Disposal of Solid Waste	Publication
	Description: This fact sheet discusses a rulemaking that establishes comprehensive, protective standards for managing the nation's solid waste burden. The rule specifies location provisions and design, operating, and closure requirements for landfills. In addition, the rule offers incentives for increasing source reduction and recycling nationwide.
	02/15/1990	Environmental Fact Sheet: Plastics: The Facts About Production, Use, and Disposal	Publication
	Description: Presents EPA's Report to Congress on methods to manage and control plastic wastes. Discusses major types of plastics and their uses. Looks at where plastics go and resulting disposal problems. EPA believes source reduction and recycling will provide the most significant results in reducing the impact of plastics in the environment.
	02/15/1990	Environmental Fact Sheet: Plastics: The Facts on Source Reduction	Publication
	Description: Presents EPA's Report to Congress on methods to manage and control plastic wastes. Outlines EPA's belief that source reduction is the best method for reducing environmental impacts from wastes, by decreasing the amount or toxicity of materials that are thrown away.
	02/01/1989	Solid Waste Dilemma: An Agenda for Action (Final Report of the Municipal Waste Task Force)	Publication
	Description: This document offers a number of concrete suggestions for action by not only EPA, but also government at all levels, industry, and private citizens. This Agenda cannot be accomplished by government acting alone. Its accomplishment is contingent on a strong partnership among government, industry and the public. It calls for a "systems" approach to managing municipal solid waste; that is, the complementary use of source reduction, recycling, combustion, and landfills to comprehensively manage municipal solid waste.
	08/01/1988	SOURCE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR STATES	Question & Answer
	Description: Explains the Source Reduction and Recycling Technical Assistance Grants (available in 1988) and RITTA (RCRA Integrated Training and Technical Assistance Initiative).
	07/21/1987	SOURCE REDUCTION	Memo
	Description: EPA’s strategy favors source reduction, waste minimization, and recycling over treatment and land disposal. Includes four reasons why source reduction is preferable to treatment. Not all wastes can be eliminated by source reduction.
Special Wastes
State Programs (RCRA)
Storage
Surface Impoundments
Tanks
Test Methods
Toxicity Characteristic
Transporters
Treatment
TSDFs
U-wastes
Underground Storage Tanks (UST)
Universal Waste
Used Oil
Variances
Waste Determinations for Combusted Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials
Waste Minimization
Waste Piles
Waste Reduction
Wood Preserving Wastes
(Not Categorized)

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