GENERAL RESOURCES
Healthy Green Pages provides extensive locally available choices in businesses, products, services and information.
OurEarth.org is a volunteer organization providing the public with information on recycling, energy efficiency, and other environmental considerations
Recycling 101 is a comprehensive book list for ages 1-91 offered by the America Recycles Day website.
City of Eugene is providing an Events Recycling Toolkit for its citizens. This kit can be borrowed by public and private events within the city of Eugene.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance is a must-see website for research, start-up information, program development and municipal planning “how-tos”. Packed with reports, studies, bullitins and listserves on solid waste, economics, public policy and development strategies.
Fast Facts: Metro’s waste reduction educators have accumulated a database of short, persuasive facts that can be used in education and outreach work.
University of Oregon Current Events/Topics page has links to a wide variety of articles.
Waste-Line is a Canadian site offering a wide variety of useful information, from tips to “fix it yourself” to “how to get rid of...”

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS & RESOURCES
International Plastics Task Force provides a resource for information on some of the more controversial aspects of the plastics industry: toxicity, the creation of mass volumes of waste materials, excessive energy consumption, and the debate on alternative materials.
Union of Concerned Scientists lets you play the Great Green Web Game. How much impact does your lifestyle have on the environment? Here's a fun way to find out.
Jobs Through Recycling (JTR) has a list of state-specific material exchanges.
Aprovecho is a center for research, experimentation and education on alternative technologies that are ecologically sustainable and culturally responsive.
The Worldwatch Institute is a nonprofit public policy research organization.
Environmental Research Foundation offers news and scientific information on environmental topics in easy to understand language.
Environmental Defense Fund covers a wide range of environmental issues and concerns.
National Resources Defense Council mixes current environmental information and historical anecdotes.
Grist Magazine presents news and opinions on environmental issues.
Environmental News Network is an environmental online news magazine.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a very large site that contains lots of information about Oregon's environmental programs.
Environmental Working Group provides information on health and the environment.
Grass Roots Recycling Network pressures corporate America through consumer action.

RECYLING AND WASTE SERVICE PROVIDERS
Buyer's Guide to Recycled Products. This Metro (Portland area regional government) guide identifies hundreds of recycled products and provides brand name, company contact information, and percentage of recycled content.
Junk Be Gone will pick up your recyclable and disposable household materials for a fee.

RECYCLED CONTENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRODUCTS
The Patchwork Underground produces custom patchwork clothing from 100% recycling materials. Located in Eugene, Oregon.
Your Green Home sells healthy home and building supplies including paint, flooring, carpet, linens, cleaning products and more. Located in Corvallis, Oregon. 
Sustainable Group manufactures Rebinder, an alternative to toxic vinyl binders. Covers are made from recycled corrugated cardboard, and can be easily removed, recycled, and replaced by two turns of a screw. Use the existing ring metals with a new, replacement cover. All products are assembled by a back to work program at Goodwill (Tacoma, WA).
Treecycle Recycled Paper sells a wide range of environmentally sensitive recycled paper products. Site also contains information on recycled paper and on recycling and environmental issues in general.
Bewley’s Rerun Productions features unique handmade lamps, furnishings, and accessories created from recycled materials.
Urban Ruby sells eco-friendly products crafted with respect for the earth, the wearer and the producer.
Frypanman.com is a business that re-coats non-stick cookware. Repair those hacked up Teflon pans instead of dumping them!
Trillium Artisans has beautiful products for your home and garden, made in Portland, Oregon, from reclaimed discards .
Eco-Wise offers very high quality environmentally sound items, many of them for Europe.
The Center for a New American Dream is inspirational and shouldn't be missed.

COMPOSTING, REDUCING TOXIC CHEMICALS, PROTECTING THE WATERSHED, ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, ETC.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems.
Oregon Tilth, Inc. is a nonprofit research and education membership organization dedicated to biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture.
Cleaning for Health: Products and Practices for a Cleaner Indoor Environment is a one-stop guide to environmentally preferable cleaning products and methods.
Northwest Environmental Advocates and Earth Day, Every Day Oregon has an online calendar of events and information about volunteer activities.
Native Plant Society of Oregon encourages the propagation of native plants.
Worm Digest spreads the word about vermiculture and composting.  Check out their links pages.  
Worm Woman is another great site about vermiculture.

WASTE REDUCTION, LIVING SIMPLE, SCRAP ART
GreenUsesForWaste has great ideas for environmentally friendly ways to re-use all your waste.
CrackedPots.org is deeply committed to sustainable living and to reclaiming items headed to landfills by transforming them into whacky and wondrous works of garden ornamentation.
What to do with...Stuff You Don’t Want is Nancy Matson’s site containing ideas on how to responsibly deal with a variety of items.
Wired to Waste Reduction is updated by the BRING staff and features links to sites and articles related to this topic.
San Mateo County RecycleWorks provides great information about reducing unwanted mail and faxes.
New American Dream has accessible information and fun learning tools.
Simple Living Network offers tips and resources for simple living.
Make-Stuff.Com gives ideas for using everyday materials to create arts and crafts.
The Imagination Factory presents creative ideas for children's scrap art projects.
Holidays Without Waste — How to make it happen

ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
Lane County E-Waste Recycling Program allows residents and businesses to recycle most electronics at low or no cost.
NextStep Recycling in Eugene accepts donations of computers and related items and refurbishes computers for use by those who don't have access to this technology. Also accepts and recycles a broad range of other items.
Alternative Community Training, Inc. (ACT) accepts donations of used videotapes and floppy disks, and cleans and packages them for resale.
Nxtcycle is a for-profit company demanufacturing electronics in the United States
Recycling Advocates has information from the Western Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative task force
Poison PCs/Toxic TVs includes lots of great info on the problem of electronics.
Several computer manufacturers will take back their outdated computer equipment. Check out the following Web sites for more information:
Hewlett-Packard
Gateway
Dell
Apple
MPC Corp (formerly Micron)

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