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Guide to Conducting Student Food Waste Audits – A Resource for Schools
A guide to help educate students about the amount of food they waste in school cafeterias and encourage waste reduction and consumption of healthier foods. USDA, US EPA, University of Arkansas
Guide to Greening Hotels Through Waste Management & Green Purchasing
NERC BMPs for hotel recycling and purchasing
Guide to Recycling Green Teams At Sports Venues – A Roadmap to help sports teasm and venues develop a successful recycling green team
NRDC guide to help teams and leagues that aspire to achieve a zero waste operation.
Healthier Food Serviceware Choices
PFAS are often called “forever chemicals” since they are hard to break down, clean up or remove, and can stay in the environment for thousands of years. They can migrate from foodware into food and stay in our bodies for many years. Their popularity in non-stick, grease-proof, and stain-resistant consumer products
has contributed to worldwide contamination.
Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities: Opportunities to Bridge Environmental Justice and Soil Carbon Sequestration
Carbon capture and healthy soils are linked to the economic and environmental justice concerns of low-income and underserved communities in this strategy paper. Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
Healthy Sustainable Schools Guide for change
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and US EPA guide to provide parents and school officials with resources to create healthy, sustainable schools.
Hennepin County business recycling program Waste Assessment Checklist
Waste assessment checklist for businesses in Hennipen County
Historical Prices of OCC 1992 – 2019
Spreadsheet listing OCC prices regionally from 1992 - 2019
Hotel Recycing Case Study
Case Study - Sheraton Colonial Hotel Conference Center, Wakefield, MA
Household Needles in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): Policy, Controls, and Material Recovery Facility (MRF) Safety
Summary of current policy and practices, inventory of needlestick incidences at MRFs. EREF & SWANA
How to Dispose of a Mattress
The Mattress Recycling Council estimates that Americans dispose of roughly 15 to 20 million mattresses every year. The average mattress takes up 40 cubic feet, which means that one year’s worth of discarded mattresses will occupy more than 132,000 square miles of landfill space. To cut down on waste and preserve landfill space, mattress owners in the U.S. are encouraged to get rid of their old mattresses using alternative means. This guide will feature some helpful tips for donating, recycling, reselling and reusing old or used mattresses.
How to Implement a Local Ordinance to Increase Recycling
Tips on how to approach local policy development
Implementation Study of the Electronics Recycling Standards: R2 and e-Stewards
Full report from US EPA assessing whether R2 and e-Stewards standards are being implemented transparently, consistently, and are achieving desired results
Implementation Study of the Electronics Recycling Standards: R2 and e-Stewards Fact Sheet
Overview of R2 and e-Stewards standards
Implementing a Plant Growth Testing Program
USCC step-by-step guide for designing a plant growth test program to determine if persistent herbicides occur in compost products
Implementing and Monitoring Unit Pricing
US EPA guidebook on PAYT Part 4
Increasing Recycling Now! Guidebook for Community Adoption of Recycling and Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Ordinance – Practical Guide and Model Language for Communities
Increasing Recycling Now! Guidebook for Community Adoption of Recycling and Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Ordinance - Practical Guide and Model Language for Communities
Increasing Recycling Now! Implementing Recycling and Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Ordinances, Legislation, or Contracting- Practical Guide and Model Language
Increasing Recycling Now! Implementing Recycling and Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Ordinances, Legislation, or Contracting- Practical Guide and Model Language
Influencing Behavior at Local, State, and Federal Levels – Real World Interventions Using Social Marketing Techniques in Recycling and Sustainability
PowerPoint presentaton by Skumatz Economic Research Associates
Integrated campus recycling and waste management guide
A manual for state agencies, private and public colleges and universities with a guide to how different facility types within individual types can divert materials from landfill disposal.
Investing in glass clean-up systems at MRFs offers higher value commodities and significant savings for the entire system
Research on new technology that analyses the ROI of adding glass clean-up systems at MRFs
Iowa City Apartment & Condominium Recycling Best Management Practices Manual
A manual to help multifamily apartment and condominim tenants, landlords, managers, owners associations learn about options for recycling services.
Iowa Cost Analysis Tool [for Hub and Spoke systems]
An Excel based tool to determine costs associated with a hub and spoke system
Iowa Green Meetings & Events – A Best Practices Manual for Iowas meetings and events of all sizes and types
Iowa Recycling Association and Iowa DNR publication with policies, checklists, RFPs, green purchasing and more.
Iowa Municipal Solid Waste and Recycling Survey
A survey to assist a local solid waste planning agency develop the area’s comprehensive solid waste plan- IDNR
Is Unit Pricing Right for Your Community?
US EPA guidebook on PAYT Part 1
Is Your Waste Contract Putting Your Municipality at Risk? Best Practices in Municipal Waste Contracting
Muncipal contract analysis, best practices and recommendations for MSW contracting - ITPI
Joint Advisory on Designing Contracts for Processing of Municipal Recyclables
General guidance on municipal contracts with private MRFs.
Keep America Beautiful-Coca Cola grants
Grant application for recycling bins in public spaces
Keep Nebraska Beautiful Materials Exchange
List of materials generated and wanted in Nebraska
Keep Organic Materials Out of Landfills – Additonal Resources
Links to resources on the climate/waste connection, municipal commercial composting rules, benefits of compost on soils, yard waste in landfills, home and school composting, municipal organics collection programs, food waste, videos, how to make a compost bin, and vermicomposting
Keeping Food Out of the Landfill: Policy Ideas for States and Localities
Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic toolkit for state and local policy-makers that reduce the amount of food that goes to waste. Surveys 8 different policy areas and information on relevant federal laws.