A 30-page report by the Cornell
Environmental Risk Analysis Program and the Open Burning Group.
March 2003
A report of the December 11, 2000 Roundtable
on Pay As You Throw For Large Municipalities held in New York
City.
Less Packaging! Cleaner Environment!
Lower Cost! A media packet which shows how reduced packaging
can help towards reducing the environmental impacts of producing
unnecessary packaging materials. 1998.
A Summary of the Novemeber
6, 1998 Roundtable held in New York City. Optional appendices.
A Summary of the November 14, 1997
Materials Exchange Roundtable
An Agricultural Waste Market Research
Study for New York State. 1997.
A project to determine if environmental
educational strategies have an influence on purchasing behavior.
1996.
Article from the Journal of Environmental
Systms in which four methods of ranking packaging choices are
compared. 1995. Available from CWMI.
Commercial and institutional
wastes accounts for about half of municipal solid waste. This manual/video
resource packet will help solid waste officials, educators, recycling
professionals, and businesses reduce the amount of solid waste generated
by businesses, with a particular focus on retail, hospitality, and
small office sectors. The 80-page manual includes waste assessment
methods, cost evaluation information, and work sheets. 1994.
Manual and 13-minute Video: $25.
Manual only: $15. Video only: $20.
- Exercises, handouts
and flipcards (in English and Spanish) to teach limited resource
homemakers about waste reduction. Especially designed to use
with Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). 1994.
Can also be used with the "Shop SMART" Video (below).
- Provides tools for
teaching SMART shopping, including a 4-minute video, a camera-ready
brochure emphasizing cost savings with less waste packaging,
a camera-ready SMART lunch bookmark, copy for PSAs and newspaper
articles, and training packages for working with volunteers to
lead supermarket tours. 1994.
Fact Shet/Viewpoint #5 provides information
on compensation, citizens' advisory committees, pubic opinion
surveys, negotiation tips, and more. 1993.
Fact Sheet and Viewpoint #4 includes
comments on financial incntives and disincentives, regulation,
bans and requirements, education and facilitation, and the future
for waste prevention. The fact sheet reviews the basics of waste
prevention, including Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). 1991
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