Recycling Record Setters Program Profiles: Recreational and Cultural Facilities

Date: 1 Nov 1998 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

AUTRY MUSEUM OF WESTERN HERITAGE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Contact: Leland Marks Autry Museum of Western Heritage 4700 Western Heritage Way Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 (213) 667-2000 The museum’s recycling program recovers traditionally recovered items and unique items such as trees and waste water. Trash pick-up has been reduced from five times a week to just once. … Read MoreRead More

Government and Community-Based Sources and Strategies for Financing Recycling Enterprises

Prepared for the National Recycling Coalition by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, this report discusses recent developments in community and small business financing, identifies barriers and current needs, and outlines steps for linking recycling-based community development and small business financing. Appendices list and survey prominent community development corporations and finance institutions. Download PDF (147 KB)

Key Characteristics of Record-Setting Recycling Programs

Date: 1 Jan 1998 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Compost yard trimmings Only those programs with comprehensive composting of segregated organics have achieved very high levels of materials recovery. Target a wide range of materials For a community to recover a high percentage of its total waste, it must target a variety of materials. Targeting only two or three materials (for example, newspapers, bottles, cans) … Read More

Thinking About Solid Waste Management in the District of Columbia

Date: 1 Jan 1998 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This report examines major solid waste issues facing the nation’s capital and offers recommendations for making ecologically sound and cost-effective improvements that build community and entrepreneuralism. The report includes recommendations on recycling, trash collection routes and vehicles, waste transfer stations, and retraining city workers. by Neil Seldman Download PDF File (2.52 MB)

Creating Wealth from Everyday Items

Date: 1 Feb 1997 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This report profiles six model reuse operations and seven programs that collect reusable goods from households. Each profile documents materials handled, marketing information, process and equipment utilized, costs, and replicability. The report also details job creation and other community benefits of reuse. View Introduction by Brenda Platt ISBN 0-917582-95-0, LC 97-1338 Download PDF File (8.92 MB)

Plug into Electronics Reuse

Date: 1 Jan 1997 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Because computers become obsolete so swiftly, they are often discarded with many or all working components. This report provides contact information on 150 computer recovery facilities as well as in-depth profiles of the operating experiences of 13 that focus on computer reuse. Operations profiled are all replicable and many are interested in starting similar enterprises in … Read More

Who’s Behind The Attack on Recycling?

Date: 1 Dec 1996 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

by Neil N. Seldman– Institute for Local Self-Reliance December 1996 One would think that recycling, like motherhood and apple pie, would be an activity beyond reproach. After all, an enterprise that requires less than a minute a day, that makes us feel good about ourselves, that reduces pollution and saves energy would seem to have a … Read More

RECYCLING AT THE CROSSROADS: DEBATING ITS POTENTIAL

Date: 18 Sep 1996 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Plenary Session Debate with Brenda Platt, Jerry Powell, and J. Winston Porter National Recycling Congress Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1996 Remarks by Brenda Platt Director of Materials Recovery Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC Fifteen to twenty years ago, many solid waste planners thought that 10 percent recycling was the limit. In the late 1980s this … Read More

The Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling

Date: 14 Sep 1996 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Institute for Local Self-Reliance 2001 S Street NW Suite 570 Washington, DC 20009 Tel: 202-898-1610 MYTH #1: We can recycle only 25 to 30% of our solid wastes.1 FACT: Twenty five percent was considered a maximum level in 1985. Today it should be considered a minimum, not a maximum. By continuing to build the reuse, recycling, … Read More

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