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Waste Reduction

Curriculum designed to help teach adult students English, while introducing basic concepts about the environment and individual environmental responsibility. The concepts introduced in the curriculum can help immigrants understand their role in contributing towards cleaner and healthier communities by reducing, reusing and recycling.”


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.


Cigarette Litter Pilot Programs in Your Community

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.

 

Environmental Virtual Campus

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)

 

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

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