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America's Marketplace Recycles
America's Marketplace Recycles: A Guide to Waste Reduction at Shopping Centers
This guide was created to help shopping centers and retailers increase reuse and recycling, reduce waste disposal, often saving money in the process. It also serves as a resource for local and state recycling coordinators who work with the commercial sector. The guide contains numerous case examples from shopping centers and retailers who are leaders in waste prevention and recycling. You may download the guide in its entirety or by chapter.
America's Marketplace Recycles: A Guide to Waste Reduction at Shopping Centers (complete guide) (PDF) (52 pp, 4MB, about PDF)
- Cover,
Table of Contents, and Introduction (PDF)
(7 pp, 2.3MB, about
PDF)
- Chapter
1: Establishing a Successful Recycling Program (PDF)
(14 pp, 440K, about
PDF) - Summarizes the 10 critical steps for developing
a recycling program at a shopping center or retail facility.
- Chapter
2: Preventing Waste in the First Place (PDF)
(4 pp, 162K, about
PDF) - Describes waste prevention activities
shopping centers and their retail partners can initiate
and provides case examples ranging from using floor-ready
merchandise to reduce packaging, to recycling polystyrene
foam "peanuts" used in transport of goods.
- Chapter
3: Resource Management (PDF)
(2 pp, 147 K, about
PDF) - Unlike traditional disposal contracting
which compensates contractor services based on volume of
waste disposed, Resource Management contracts cap disposal
costs to encourage a single contractor to work with you
to improve resource efficiency through enhanced source reduction,
recycling, and materials recovery.
- Chapter
4: Closing the Loop (PDF) (1
pg, 86K, about
PDF) - Discusses opportunities for integrating
recycled-content products into shopping center and retail
store construction, renovation, landscaping, maintenance,
and operations.
- Chapter
5: Case Studies (PDF) (9 pp,
351K, about PDF)
- Provides case studies on shopping centers and retailers
who are leaders in recycling and waste prevention.
- Resources
| PDF
Version (6 pp, 407K, about
PDF) - Lists organizations, websites, and publications
helpful to shopping centers and retailers.
- Appendices
(PDF) (106 pp, 770K, about
PDF)
- Appendix A - summarizes the materials most commonly found and how they can best be recycled;
- Appendix B - lists products available with recycled-content; and
- Appendix C - provides links to EPA programs relevant to the retail industry.
