Buy Recycled Links

America Recycles Day (ARD)
ARD is a national grassroots campaign dedicated to increasing the purchase of recycled content products and recycling throughout America.

National Recycling Coalition
The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) is a national non-profit advocacy group with members that span all aspects of waste reduction, reuse and recycling in North America. It's objective is to eliminate waste and promote sustainable economies through advancing sound management practices for raw materials in North America.

Conservatree
This site provides information on recycled, tree-free, and chlorine-free printing and writing papers.

General Services Administration Recycled Content Products
GSA's website for federal agencies on purchasing recycled content products.

Global Recycling Network (GRN)
The Global Recycling Network is currently constructing its GRN Marketplace Web site. The site offers recycled-content product information.

Green Seal
Green Seal is the independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the environment by promoting the manufacture and sale of environmentally responsible consumer products. It sets environmental standards and awards a "Green Seal of Approval" to products that cause less harm to the environment than other similar products.

Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
This office promotes, coordinates, and assists federal agencies with waste prevention, recycling, and the affirmative procurement of products made with recycled content and environmentally preferable products and services.

Recycler's World
This site is a worldwide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used materials, and surplus items. There is also a calendar of events, a listing of associations, and a publications list.

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)
SCS documents environmental claims, such as "recycled content" and "biodegradability," appearing on thousands of products and materials. SCS's Compliance Evaluation Program helps retailers, government agencies, and corporate procurement officials screen the environmental claims made by their vendors to ensure responsible green marketing.

U.S. Conference of Mayors
This site provides information on their training program and information on implementing a buy-recycled program.

U.S. EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program (EPP)
EPP is a federal-wide program that encourages and assists Executive agencies in the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services. This site includes tools to implement EPP, successful stories, events, and an EPP discussion section.

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California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB)
This site includes an online Recycled Content Product (RCP) Database, consisting of information on recycled products, manufacturers, distributors, reprocessors, mills, and converters who procure or produce recycled-content products or the recycled materials needed to make them. The result is a growing list of over 10,000 materials, products, and businesses.

National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR)
The Recycled PET (RPET) Catalog provides a list of suppliers that manufacture products containing postconsumer PET plastic bottles.

National Association of State Purchasing Officials (NASPO)
This site provides monthly updates on buy recycled and green purchasing, and describes the county's experience with different recycled products. The site also includes information on resources for buyers, provides a model environmental purchasing policy, and contains the King County Recycled Procurement 1998 Annual Report.

U.S. EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
This site includes information on the 54 procurement guidelines, a list of manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers of designated products, fact sheets, buy-recycled news, and related links.

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