Environmental Sites: Solid Waste

• California Integrated Waste Management Board
  managing California's solid waste stream. The Board is helping California divert its waste from landfills by: Developing waste reduction programs. Providing public education and outreach. Assisting local governments and businesses. Fostering market development for recyclable materials. The Board also protects public health and the environment by: Encouraging used oil recycling. Regulating waste management facilities. Cleaning up abandoned and illegal dump sites. - site intro
• Clean Computer Campaign
  Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a diverse grassroots coalition engaged in research, advocacy, and organizing associated with environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics industry. Dedicated to advancing environmental sustainability and clean production in the industry and to improve health, promote justice, and ensure democratic decision-making for communities and workers affected by the high-tech revolution in Silicon Valley and other high-tech areas of the US and the world. - site intro
• EPA Office of Solid Waste Publications
  Publications on all aspects of solid waste are available as pdf files or for order.
• Office of Solid Waste (EPA)
  Topics include: Industrial and Special Waste (Batteries, Cement Kiln Dust, Crude Oil & Natural Gas, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Waste, Medical Waste, Mining Waste, Universal Waste, Used Oil); Municipal Solid (Waste Basic Facts, Climate Change, Composting, Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines, Disposal, Extended Product Responsibility, Full Cost Accounting, Household Hazardous Waste, Jobs Through Recycling, Landfills, Pay-As-You-Throw, Program Information, Recycling, Source Reduction, WasteWise); Hazardous Waste (Combustion, Corrective Action, Data Generators, Land Disposal Restrictions, Manifest, Permitting, Radioactive Mixed Waste, Recycling Hazardous Waste, State Authorization, Test Methods, Waste Identification, Waste Minimization). 
• RCRA Online
  Online database for RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) issues and
  topics. indexes thousands of letters, memoranda, and questions and answers issued by EPA's Office of Solid Waste (OSW). These documents represent past EPA Headquarters interpretations of the RCRA regulations governing the management of solid, hazardous, and medical waste. Documents from OSW correspondence letters and memoranda (SOCs), RCRA Permit policy Compenium guidance documents, (RPPCs), and Monthlyy Call Center Report Q&As (MRQs). Topical and full text searches possible.
• Second Time Around
  Recycling definitions, facts, trends, and suggestions for reducing waste. From the EPA. - mh
• Solid Waste Characterization Database
  The commercial part of the database combines information on the numbers and
  types of businesses in a jurisdiction with information on the amounts and
  types of waste typically disposed for different business types. You can use the database to: 
  * Find out which business(es) dispose the most waste in a city 
  * For a type of business, find out what materials are disposed the most 
  * Find out which materials are disposed the most by the entire commercial sector 
  * For a type of material, find out which businesses dispose the most - site intro
• Solid Waste Information System (SWIS) Database
  The SWIS database contains information on solid waste facilities, operations, and disposal sites throughout the State of California. The types of facilities found in this database include landfills, transfer stations, material recovery facilities, composting sites, transformation facilities, waste tire sites, and closed disposal sites. For each facility, the database contains information about location, owner, operator, facility type, regulatory and operational status, waste types received, and local enforcement agency.