Conservation Tools
Related Links
Guide for Industrial Waste Management Tools
Resource Conservation Challenge / Partnerships
Resource Conservation Challenge
Coal Combustion Products Partnership
National Partnerships for Environmental Priorities
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.