Environmental Resource Guides

Recycling and Waste

General Resources

Environmental Protection Agency Student Center Waste & Recycling Page

This interactive site explains why, where, and how waste is created in America. The EPA provides ideas about how to reduce and recycle waste. Enter a zipcode to get specific environmental information about a neighborhood. This part of the site provides a good introduction, but students should visit the rest of the site for a more comprehensive understanding of waste and recycling. Last updated: August 1, 2001.

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Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?

This site is a good introduction to waste management. It answers basic questions about solid waste, hazardous waste, and sewage and describes how to solve problems related to garbage in the environment. The site also provides links for further research. "Garbage" is inspired by programs from Race to Save the Planet, a video series in the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection. c1998. The Annenberg/CPB Project.

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Topic for Discussion

Long Distance, Short Life: Why Big Business Favours Recycling.

Article by Simon Fairlie. The Ecologist. Vol 22 no6, 1992. This article dicusses some of the global controversy about recycling. Fairlie makes a strong point that reuse, not recycling, is the most critical issue to sustainability. Read and come prepared to discuss.

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