Community Education
Waste Reduction
Working Together for a Healthy Environment – A Guide for Multi-Cultural Community Groups
Working Together for a Healthy Environment – A guide for Multi-Cultural Community Groups” with this descriptive text “A publication designed to help community-based organizations plan and execute community events that promote reducing, reusing and recycling. It has a brief introductory paragraph on the inside cover in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean.
Keep America Beautiful has developed an educational cigarette litter prevention program with proven solutions for reducing cigarette litter in your community. Stakeholders’ in communities across Virginia are encouraged to organize and implement proven strategies to reduce cigarette litter. In 2006, over 50 communities in 22 states implemented a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program, averaging a 48% reduction in cigarette butt litter. Get results in your community. Start now.
Auntie Litter
A national non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing environmental education to the general public, particularly children.
Family Conservation Resource: Get a Green Clean!
Make these easy-to-make and economical green cleaners!
GreenDimes.com
GreenDimes stops your paper junk mail, helps protect your identity, and plants a tree for you every month for a fraction of the cost of doing it on your own.
Lamprecycle.org is a resource for any light bulb ("lamp") user seeking details on recycling spent mercury-containing lamps.
Virginia's Assign-A-Highway
Find out how your locality can start using the Assign-A-Highway program for litter pick-ups.
Explore waste and recycling issues related to higher education on a virtual college campus.
Ecological Footprint Jeopardy
Downloadable Make & Take activity that looks at lifestyle impacts on the environment.
Waste Management Jeopardy
Downloadable Make & Take activity that looks at waste management issues and trivia.
Litter Prevention Resources from Clean Virginia Waterways
Textile recycling
Green Earth Recycling of Virginia (Clothing and Shoe Collection Bins) 804-639-3069
HR CLEAN
This site is the recycling and litter prevention education program of Hampton Roads.
CVWMA
The Central Virginia Waste Management Authority (CVWMA) is a public service authority that implements solid waste management and recycling programs for thirteen local governments
Virginia Recycling Association
The Virginia Recycling Association is a non-stock, non-profit Virginia corporation composed of individuals and organizations of diverse interests. The membership is committed to the common goal of promoting recycling as an integral part of resource conservation and solid waste management.
Roadside litter: Decomposition Chart for litter