Resources
Educational & Informational Resources
Quick links to Recycling Information, Solid Waste, and Government Web Sites.
Niagara County Household Hazardous Waste Drop off Days
- "New York Recycles" License Plates - NY residents can show their support for state recycling with a "New York Recycles" custom license plate. Click on this link and go to "Custom License Plates".
- America Recycles Day
- American Plastics Council - When we hear the term "green living," many of us think of the outdoors - trees, mountains and lawns. In fact, green living can start indoors by choosing recycled plastic products, finding new and creative uses for old items, and cutting back our use of natural resources.
- Container Recycling Institute - CRI is a non-profit organization that studies and promotes policies and practices that shift the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste from government and taxpayers to producers and consumers.
- Cornell Waste Managment Institute
- CYLINDER DISPOSAL CO. - This company accepts large and small (1lb) propane cylinders for recycling.
- Educational Resources from the EPA - Intended to provide students in grades 6 to 8 with ideas and resources for developing environmental science fair projects, specifically in the areas of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials.
- EPA Kids Page - Fun and educational for students and teachers.
- Hewlett Packard Product Recycling - HP's Planet Partners (TM) recycling service provides an easy way to recycle any brand of computer equipment or HP printing supplies. HP's state-of-the-art processes ensure that your unwanted hardware or HP printing supply is recycled in a way that conserves resources.
- ISRI Institue of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.
- Keep America Beautiful - Keep America Beautiful is a national nonprofit public education organization dedicated since 1953 to engaging individuals to take great responsibility for improving their local community environment.
- MasterComposter - Excellent source for composting information.
- Mercury Facts - Did you know that the mercury in just one thermometer can contaminate an 11-acre lake, and broken thermomters add some 17 tons of mercury to the U.S. waste stream annually? Check out this site for more information on mercury!
- NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
- Our Earth non-profit organization that promotes environmental education and awareness and more
- The Compost Resource Page - This site is intended to serve as a hub of information for anyone interested in the various aspects of composting
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Protecting human health, safeguarding the natural environment
- Waste Free Lunches - A single student produces 45-90 pounds of garbage a year in disposable lunches, according to New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. Learn what you can do to change this!
- Waste Less! - This NYC site gives great ideas on how to waste less!
