Links & Resources

The following are links to organizations working to reduce waste, research reports, and data sources. Please email us if there are resources that you have found useful and we should consider including.

New York City Plans and Reports

• Department of Sanitation New York City 2006 Solid Waste Management Plan
• 2004 Commercial Waste Management Study
• 2004-05 NYC Residential and Street Basket Waste Characterization Study
• NYC WasteLe$$ Waste Prevention and Recycling Reports
• Focused Verification and Validation of Advanced Solid Waste Management Technologies: Pase II Study. 2006. Prepared for New York City Economic Development Corporation and New York City Department of Sanitation.

Waste Characterization Reports

• 2004 NYC Commercial Waste Management Study
• 2004-05 NYC Residential and Street Basket Waste Characterization Study
• CA Integrated Waste Management Board, 2006. Targeted Statewide Waste Characterization Study: Waste Disposal and Diversion Findings for Selected Industry Groups
• U.S EPA Office of Solid Waste, 2007. Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2007 Facts and Figures

NYC Waste Diversion Initiatives

• Council on Environment of New York City
• New York Waste Match
• Making Recycling Work II: A Roundtable on the Future of Recycling in New York City Proceedings Report, 2007. An Initiative of the Citywide Recycling Advisory Board the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc.
• Sustainable South Bronx
• NYC Material Exchange Development Program
• New York Biomass Trader

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Waste

• EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
• EPA WAste Reduction Model (WARM)

Greening Foodservice

• Elemental Impact
• Green Restaurant Association
• National Restaurant Association’s Conserve Initiative

Wholesale Packaging

• Corrugated Packaging Alliance, 2007. Voluntary Standard For Repulping and Recycling Corrugated Fiberboard Treated to Improve Its Performance in the Presence of Water and Water Vapor.
• Recyclable Transfer Packaging Directory

Food Packaging

• Seattle Bill 116250 Requiring Food Service Transition from Disposable to Recyclable or Compostable Foodservice Ware

Beverage Containers

• Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling, 2002. Understanding Beverage Container Recovery: A Value Chain Assessment Prepared for the Multi-Stakeholder Recovery Project, Stage One. A project of Global Green USA. Report prepared by RW Beck with contributions from Franklin Associates and Tellus Institute.
• Container Recycling Institute

Carpet

• CARE: Carpet America Recovery Effort
• Carpet Cycle

Plastic Bags

• Heal the Bay’s Information on the Impact of Plastic Bags

Other Resources

• National Recycling Coalition
• Global Green USA
• GreenBlue Institute
• EPA WasteWise
• Sustainable Packaging Coalition
• Turner Foundation
• Western Michigan University Coating and Recycling Pilot Plant