Topic - Recycling

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Recycling.

This section provides information on cost-friendly recycling practices, new recycling programs and how they work, innovative solutions to waste in the electronics industry, the recycling of telephones as a crime-fighting initiative, and new federal programs designed to encourage more recycling.

moreRelated Awards

Move Information, Not Property (74%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

Landfill Reclamation Project (69%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
January 11, 2005

Seattle Recycling Program (66%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
March 14, 2005

The Minnesota Ramp Project (64%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
1995

Motor Oil Recycling Program (55%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

Londrina Selective Waste Management Program - "Recycling Lives" (54%)
The Public Management and Citizenship Program in Brazil
April 27, 2005

Multi-State Procurement of Xerographic Paper (50%)
Innovation in American Government Awards
1993

moreMost Relevant News

Recycled-water reservoir idea pushed (100%)
The Sacramento Bee
April 28, 2009

Where Recycling Plastic Bags Is Mandatory (99%)
New York Times
August 19, 2009

Hunting for Social Innovation #4: Data Mining TIME's 25 "Responsibility Pioneers" (86%)
nuPOLIS
September 30, 2009

Recycling home found for some plastic foam in Frisco, Dallas (83%)
The Dallas Morning News
March 15, 2009

Reduce, Reuse, 'e-cycle' (78%)
US States News
January 13, 2009

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moreMost Relevant Documents

Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments (100%)
Robert N. Stavins
Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government
April 29, 2004

Housing Facts & Findings, Vol. 6, No. 2 (86%)
Alan Mallach, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, Daniel T. Kildee
Fannie Mae Foundation
2004

Assessment of State Initiatives to Promote Redevelopment of Brownfields (83%)
ICF Consulting, The E.P. Systems Group, Inc.

December 1, 1999

Why Is There So Little Redevelopment of Brownfields? Framing Issues for Discussion (82%)
Niall Kirkwood
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
January 1, 2001

City Soil: Controlling Environmental Costs and Risk for Urban Brownfield Reuse (74%)
Paul Stanton Kibel
National Housing Institute
July 1, 2003

National Environmental Policy During the Clinton Years (60%)
Sheila Cavanagh, Robert Hahn, Robert Stavins
Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government
April 29, 2004

Tax Credits and Rural Housing (57%)
Kim Herman, Walter Clare, Susan Herd, Dana Jones, Erica Stewart, Barbara Burnham
Housing Assistance Council
Winter 2003-2004

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