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WasteWise Climate Publications

Prioritizing Your Climate-Waste Activities (PDF) (2 pp., 101 KB)
October 2005
This document guides WasteWise partners in prioritizing waste prevention and recycling efforts based on materials that have the greatest greenhouse gas emission reduction potential.

Don't "Waste" Your Chance To Do Your Share—How To Reduce Your Climate Footprint (PDF) (16 pp., 1,567 KB)
June 2005
This how-to guide will help partners better understand the connection between climate change and waste—helping minimize climate footprints through waste reduction. Plus it explains how to educate management, employees, and the general public about the climate-waste connection and spreading the word about WasteWise-related accomplishments.

Climate Case Studies (PDF) (8 pp., 900 KB)
October 2004

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This document contains case studies on innovative waste reduction activities that reduce global climate change. The following WasteWise partners are featured: Target Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, Xerox Corporation, Pepco, Springs Industries, and Crown Holdings.

WasteWise Update: "Global Warming...Is A Waste!" (PDF) (16 pp., 939 KB) | ASCII
July 2002 (No. 18)
This WasteWise Update explores the connection between solid waste and climate change, describes waste-related climate impacts, identifies ways to reduce GHG emissions and minimize global climate change, and introduces the new WasteWise Climate Change Initiative and Climate Change Award.

WasteWise Bulletin: Climate (PDF) (4 pp., 210 KB)
September/October 2002
This WasteWise Bulletin focuses on climate change and waste, introduces the WasteWise Climate Change Toolkit and EPA's WARM Calculator, and highlights Allergan, Inc.'s innovative climate efforts.

Why "Waste" a Cool Planet: MSW Solutions to Global Climate Change
This video, broadcast nationally in December 2000, is dedicated to educating businesses and state and local governments about the relationship between solid waste management and climate change.

To order a free copy of this video, contact the WasteWise HelpLine at (800) EPA-WISE (372-9473) or e-mail OSWWasteWise@epa.gov for more information

Climate Change Case Studies
These case studies feature WasteWise partners that have made climate activities an important part of their WasteWise program.

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EPA Climate Publications

Reports, Papers, and Presentations
These reports and presentations discuss different aspects of the link between climate change and municipal solid waste.

Folders, Fact Sheets, and Case Studies
These folders and accompanying fact sheets describe the link between climate change and municipal solid waste and provide guidelines for solid waste management programs in developing countries.

Waste Reduction Model (WARM)
WARM is a tool to help solid waste planners and organizations track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas emissions reductions from several different waste management practices.

Reusable News: Fall 2001 (PDF) (8 pp., 482 KB)
EPA530-N-01-004
This EPA newsletter issue contains articles on the link between climate change and waste management.

Climate Change Kids Site
The Climate Change Kids Site is designed to educate children about climate change. The Web site presents the potential causes and effects of climate change along with explanations of the greenhouse effect and the global climate system. In addition, the site describes several methods for reducing climate change. The site also includes a glossary of relevant terms, online games, and links to related Web sites.

Other Publications

WasteAge Magazine: "Keeping It Cool" Exit EPA
September 2001
This article discusses how new software and management techniques can help reduce methane and minimize greenhouse gases.

MSW Management Magazine: "Playing It Cool" Exit EPA
September/October 2002
This article discusses how smart waste management makes "dollars and sense" in mitigating climate change.

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