City Recycling Programs

Most large cities have information about recycling programs posted on the internet. The following is a (short) list of websites providing city recycling program data :

City Recycling Websites U.S.A.

Albuquerque, Baltimore, Fort Collins, Houston, Iowa City, Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburg, San Diego, St Louis

City Recycling Websites Canada

Kingston, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver

City Recycling Websites U.K.

Bristol, Norwich, Oxford

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Favorite Recycling Websites:

100 Top Recycling Sites This site is produced by the Environmental Organization (World.Org). World.Org provides access to a variety of composting educational materials and programs.

Recycling Database Great site for recycling ideas provided by World.Org. Covers just about anything you can imagine.

Recycle City A novel website put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This site graphically illustrates various city recycling capabilities. When you leave you should know a lot more about protecting the environment. Go to the activities section and put Recycle City to use, create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt or play the Dumptown Game.

Recycling Site SnaffleUp The recycling web site designed to keep useful items out of landfill.

Waste collection UK A popular UK-based recycling web-site.

Blog On Smog Recycling Archive Complete list of recycling blog entries.

Popular Blog On Smog Recycling Posts:

Recycling Old CDs and DVDs Did you know that tens of millions of DVDs, CDs and plastic covers are tossed into the garbage every year? Either they reach landfill sites or are incinerated. In either case the resulting pollution could have been avoided if the owner knew what to do with them (or wasn't so lazy)...

The Problem with Styrofoam Did you know that styrofoam^TM is 98% air while the remainder consists of polystyrene, a petroleum product? Benzene is used in the manufacture of polystyrene and is a human carcinogen. Polystyrene is a highly flammable substance. Styrofoam takes approximately 500 years to break down and it is estimated that landfill sites will eventually be comprised of 30% styrofoam. Animals may ingest polystyrene foam causing their digestive tracts to be blocked, resulting in starvation...

Battery Recycling and Disposal Did you know that there are more than 250 thousand tons of (or 3.5 billion) batteries produced annually for the North American consumer market? Many of these batteries eventually make it into landfill sites, approximately 600 tons of batteries per day.

Recycling Used Clothing Did you know that in North America 85% of used clothing ends up in landfill sites? There are several environmental considerations for garment disposal. Two issues are that synthetic fibres don't decompose; and woollen clothing does decompose, but produces methane gas. Methane is a greenhouse gas and 38% of North America's methane emissions come from landfill sites.