Other Resources

Don't stop here! Find more waste prevention information below and at the Waste Prevention Information Exchange and find out how you can go beyond waste prevention.

• Beyond Waste Prevention—If simple waste prevention and recycling practices leave you wanting to do more, here's more.
• California Materials Exchange (CalMAX)—For the things you want to acquire, and the still useful things you might otherwise discard.
• Construction and Demolition—Find new lives for construction materials.
• Electronic Product Management—What to do with your old computers, TVs, radios, cell phones, etc.
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing—Every product purchased has an impact on human health and the environment. What kind of impact are you making?
• Holiday Parties—Going easy on the environment during the holiday cheer.
• Organics—Commercial agriculture, backyard gardening, composting, lawns, vermiculture, and much more.
• Packaging—Resources for manufacturers and suppliers.
• Paper Information and Resources—Everything you need to know about paper.
• Recycled Content Product Directory and RecycleStore—If you don't buy recycled, you are not really recycling.
• Reuse—Because new is often not the best option, and because there are better places to get rid of your stuff than the trash can.
• Waste Prevention Information Exchange—The most comprehensive source of all types of waste prevention information. And if there is anything missing, you can add to the exchange.

California Integrated Waste Management Board. Learn about the simple and easy ways you can join your friends and neighbors in helping preserve California's precious natural resources and protecting the environment. You’ll be amazed how easy it is to shrink the amount of waste being disposed in California’s landfills by reducing, reusing, recycling, and buying recycled-content products.

Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling. This agency is responsible for California's beverage container recycling program. When you purchase beverages in cans and bottles, you pay CRV (California refund value) and are reimbursed when you redeem the container at a certified recycling center.

Department of Toxic Substances Control. Proper management of hazardous waste is critical to public health and environmental well being. Learn how to safely manage the many different types of household hazardous wastes lurking within your own cupboards and closets. Fact sheets are available on the publications and forms page under "Managing Hazardous Waste Publications" and "Pollution Prevention Publications."

Department of General Services
DGS's Green California site is a gateway for the latest information on how the state of California is working to implement sustainable building practices and energy conservation efforts statewideto reduce energy and resource consumption, while creating safer and healthier environments in which to work, live and learn.