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Index
Agriculture and Gardening
Also see Compost in this directory.
Appliances
Also see Electronics and Reuse in this directory.
Automotive Waste Prevention
Also see Batteries, Cleaning and Custodial Supplies,
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, and Hazardous Substances/Used Oil in this directory.
Batteries
Also see Hazardous Substances/Universal Waste in this directory.
Biomass-to-Energy
See the CalRecycle Biomass-to-Energy page.
Building Design and Construction (Includes "green building" and "sustainable building.")
Also see Health Care Industry Building
Design and Construction.
Business Waste Prevention
See the CalRecycle Business Waste Prevention website.
Cleaning and Custodial Supplies
Also see Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Hazardous Substances, and
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in
the Health Care Industry.
Compost
Also see the topics Agriculture and Gardening
and Landscaping in this directory.
Education (Schools)
See the CIWMB Schools website.
Electronics
Also see Appliances,
Batteries,
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing,
Fluorescent Lamps,
Hazardous Substances,
Universal Waste, and Product Stewardship in this
directory.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Also see Cleaning and Custodial Supplies, Electronics,
Hazardous Substances, Product Stewardship, and
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in
the Health Care Industry.
Erosion Control
See the CIWMB Erosion Control page.
Extended Product Responsibility
See Electronics, Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing, and Product Stewardship in this directory.
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Fluorescent Lamps and Tubes
Also see Mercury and Universal Waste in this directory.
Food Waste
Also see Hospitality in this directory.
Gardening
See Agriculture and Gardening in this directory.
Graphics (Clipart and Symbols.)
Grasscycling
See the CIWMB Grasscycling page.
Green Building
See Building design and Construction in this directory.
Green Lodging
See the CIWMB Green Lodging website.
Also see Hospitality in this directory.
Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Substances
Also see Batteries, Cleaning and Custodial Supplies,
Electronics, Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing, Fluorescent Lamps, Product Stewardship,
Medical Waste at Home, Mercury in the Health Care
Industry and
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in the Health Care
Industry.
Hospitality
Also see Food Waste in this directory.
Ink and Toner Cartridges
See Electronics, Ink and Toner Cartridges,
in this directory.
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Landscaping
Also see Agriculture
and Gardening and Compost in this directory.
Local Governmental Contacts for Waste Prevention and Recycling
Manufacturer Responsibility
See Product
Stewardship in this directory.
Medical Waste
See Health Care
Waste in this directory.
Oil
See Used Oil in this directory.
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Packaging
See the CalRecycle Packaging website.
Paint
See Hazardous
Substances in this directory.
Paper
Also see
Air Dryers in this directory.
Plastic
Also see Building Design and Construction
and Recycling in this directory.
Posters and Signs
See the CalRecycle
Waste Reduction and Recycling Posters and Signs page.)
Product Stewardship (This page explores product stewardship of manufacturers, retailers, and consumers, including manufacturer responsibility and extended product
responsibility. This page does not address the subject of fair labor, which sometimes is also associated with the term product stewardship.)
Also see
Electronics and Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing in this directory.
Recycling Recycling is
not waste prevention!
Also see Batteries,
Building Design and Construction,
Electronics, Fluorescent Lamps,
and
Plastic in this directory.
Reducing Consumption
Also see Reuse and Wood
in this directory.
Remanufacturing
Also see Reuse in this directory.
Reuse
Also see
Appliances, Electronics, and
Remanufacturing in this directory.
Simplicity
See CalRecycle's Beyond Waste Prevention page.
Sustainable Building
See Building
Design and Construction in this directory.
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United States Federal Government Waste Prevention Information
Universal Waste
See Hazardous
Waste and Hazardous Substances in this directory.
Used Oil
See Hazardous
Waste and Hazardous Substances in this directory.
Vermicomposting
See the CIWMB Vermicomposting
page.
Wood
Also see Building
Design and Construction in this directory.
Xeriscaping
See the CalRecycle Xeriscaping page.
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