Conservation Tools

The following tools and programs can help you promote resource conservation.

Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG): Guidelines to help businesses purchase recycled materials, including recommendations for recycled-content levels for CPG items.
Tools for Local Government Recycling Programs: Provides tools and information for local governments and community leaders seeking to create or maintain a residential recycling program.
Full Cost Accounting (FCA): FCA provides a common-sense approach to identifying:
- The cost of managing solid waste operations; and
- Measures for streamlining and improving operations.
Pay-As-You-Throw: A program where residents are charged for the collection of ordinary household trash based on the amount they throw away, which encourages recycling.
Recycling Measurement: A standardized methodology for measuring the effectiveness of recycling in a community.
Materials and Waste Exchanges: Markets for buying and selling reusable and recyclable commodities.