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Waste & Recycling

Environmental Protection Agency Municipal Solid Waste
This website contains information on municipal solid waste (MSW), including facts, information about reducing, reusing and recycling, and state data about MSW. Click here to view a 1999 document that provides MSW facts and figures, including charts of types of wastes generated and recovered. More than 40 subjects related to MSW management are also included. In 2005, the EPA published a curriculum guide titled, Quest for Less: Activities and Resources for Teaching K-8.

Guide to Less Toxic Products
Everyday, most North Americans use beauty and cleaning products which contain hazardous ingredients. The objective of this site from the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia is to: 1) Provide information about potential health risks of commonly used products; 2) Help identify less toxic alternatives for personal care, household cleaning, baby care, and household pest control; and 3) Provide information to help viewers evaluate products not in their guide in order to choose the safest ones.

Hazardous Waste Management Program of King County
This site, from Seattle, Washington, offers information on disposal of hazardous materials, alternatives, the "good bug guide," and answers to common questions.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources
A variety of environmental information may be found at the Iowa DNR website. Check out the Waste Management and Education pages for issues directly related to waste reduction, reuse and recycling.

Iowa Recycling Association
Find facts about recycling, conference news, board member and staff contact information, and details about upcoming conferences, workshops and tours. An archive of IRA newsletters may also be found.

Iowa Society of Solid Waste Operators
ISOSWO is a statewide organization with members who are directly involved in solid waste management issues. At their website, access newsletters and reports, learn about current issues and environmental regulations. Conference information, as well as a listing of board members, is also available.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center
The IWRC assists small businesses with information concerning environmental regulations, waste reduction and pollution prevention. Their website includes small business tools, information about the various IWRC programs and products, Iowa and national environmental news and IWRC publications.

Master Composter
Want to learn about composting? This site is loaded with information.

National Recycling Coalition
At this site, find the Environmental Benefits Calculator, which generates estimates of resources saved with recycling of various products.

National Waste Prevention Forum
The archive includes all messages posted to the Waste Prevention Forum from January, 1999 to the present. Learn about issues waste professionals are addressing-everything from diapers to cell phones to conspicuous consumption. The Forum covers waste prevention-reduction and reuse-but not recycling. For more information, or to sign up to receive the Forum e-mails, contact Tom Watson at Tom.Watson@METROKC.gov .

Recycling and Reuse Technology Transfer Center
Find information about RRTTC's work with business and industry to promote recycling in Iowa , grant programs available for basic and applied research, and student internship opportunities.

Website mission: Provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lessons plans, and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste in K-12 classrooms. Webmaster: Susan Salterberg, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293; salterberg@uni.edu Last Updated: January 5, 2005; Copyright 2005 University of Northern Iowa. All Rights Reserved. http://www.uni.edu/ceee/wastereduction

Thanks to the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa and especially to their director, John Konefes, and to their webmaster, Jason Ebensberger, for assistance with this website. This website was prepared with the support of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Contract Number 04-G550-24. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IDNR. Funding support was also provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP): Invest in Iowa , our outdoors, our heritage, our people. REAP is supported by the state of Iowa, providing funding to public and private partners for natural and cultural resource projects, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, parks, trails, historic preservation and more.