EPA- Consumer Guide to Recycling - Contains 3 direct tips for improving your daily recycling habits.  The 3 links (in blue) correspond to the three written tips above them.

EPA Guides to Commodities - EPA provides web pages for information on the following recycling commodities.  Each page has a commodity profile, JTRnet postings, key organizations, reports, JTR activities, and other information on a commodity-specific basis.

EPA Links to Pricing Information - Timely and accurate price and other commodity information is critical to the growth of all markets, including those for recovered materials. This EPA site gives links for useful market information for recyclables.

EPA Links to Industry Trade Groups Involved with Recycling - Industry Trade Groups provide recycling information and statistics about their specific commodities.

America Recycles Day - The goal of America Recycles Day is to increase the purchase of recycled content products and recycling throughout America so we can conserve resources for future generations.  The fourth annual America Recycles Day is November 15, 2000.  Find out how you can sign a pledge and be eligible for prices, including a Green Dream House.  Locate events in your area.

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide - This site provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada to find out information about recycling.  It links to guides that cover comprehensive recycling, recycling common and hard-to-handle materials, and reducing unwanted junk mail.  It also has links to tell you how much you are saving and what is the current worth of the material you are recycling.  Though the general guidance gives a good idea of what can be recycled, recycling specifications are site specific and you should check with your local waste management professionals.

RecycleFirst - Environmentally responsible fund raising for schools and community organizations.  "This no cost, year round program is the ideal vehicle for those organizations that have a continuing need for funds and who share our goal of helping to preserve the environment".

Global Recycling Network (GRN) - Calling themselves the Internet Recycling Portal "GRN is a free-access public site dedicated to recycling-related information.   This site includes Web-publishing Services, Online Sales and Catalogs, and Advertising."  The site has information for the recycling industry and industries doing their own recycling.

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