Tools & Resources

Southeast Recycling Development Counciil will offer funding to deliver needed recycling infrastructue in the Southeast through the launch of a recycling infrastructure grant program.

List of states disposal bans or mandatory recycling laws as of 2017.

Literature review of programs and their success over the long term, and how to assist in behavioral change.

Online activity to view what products become when they are recycled. It is important to remember that each municipal recycling program is different, so not all of these materials are necessarily accepted where you live.

The Maine Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit was developed through interagency coordination to provide a centralized source for the information relevant for designing and implementing climate adaptation measures or strategies, as well as information on important regulations and standards that may affect your project or planning process. The toolkit also provides opportunities to connect with state agencies and other engaged practitioners for technical advice and expertise.

FREE, open-sourced templates you can personalize and download to show what recyclables goes in which bin.

While there are many benefits to recycling, this interactive calculator estimates the tonnage of recyclables and the related water and GHG savings possible. (Based on the EPA WARM model adjusted for traditional residential recyclables.)

The Recycling Partnership recognizes there are many different kinds of recycling processing facilities in the U.S.  The map presented here defines a Commingled Residential MRF as being a facility that accepts recyclables separated from trash and then brought in for processing as either single stream or dual stream materials to be sorted into individual commodities and sold to market.

Here the drivers of residential, institutional, and commercial food waste generation in developed countries, particularly in the U.S., are explored. The impacts of food system modernization on food waste generation are examined, including impacts related to food system industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and economic growth. The examination of the range of food wastage drivers are used to provide insight into the best policy approaches to sustainably manage food waste.