Prepared by the Southern California Council on Environment and Development (SCCED)
1247 Lincoln Blvd. #253, Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 390-4366 [email protected] www.scced.org
September 2001

BUY RECYCLED WEBSITES

Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Source Reduction and Recycling Board
http://www.stopwaste.org/purchasing.html
provides a 300-page Resourceful Purchasing Manual, a downloadable buyers manual designed to assist public agencies and others in purchasing high quality recycled and environmentally preferable products.

American Plastics Council
http://markets.plasticsresource.com
"Shop Recycled Mall" makes it easy to shop for local recycled-content plastic products ranging from pencil cups to foam packaging.

Buy Recycled Business Alliance
http://brba.nrc-recycle.org
site provides information and success stories for businesses, including a 30-page guide on implementing a buy recycled program and industry-specific guides and briefs.

California General Services Procurement Division
http://www.pd.dgs.ca.gov
has master contracts for state and local government purchasing of recycled materials.

California Integrated Waste Management Board Recycled Products Database
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/RCP/
Other info at http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BuyRecycled
includes listings in the Official Recycled Products Guide and search of over 10,000 products and businesses by type and recycled content level.

California Materials Exchange (CalMAX)
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/CalMAX
has free or low cost products of all types.

City of Santa Monica Environmental Program
http://www.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/environment/policy/
including buy recycled & sustainable policies for transportation & other procurement.

City of Santa Monica's Environmental Purchasing Programs (US EPA Report)
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/doccase.htm
For copies of this and other valuable reports.

Conservatree's Greenline
http://www.conservatree.com
provides practical and policy information on recycled paper, including an annual guide to hundreds of recycled papers.

US EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/epp
http://yosemite1.epa.gov/oppt/eppstand2.nsf
has a comprehensive website on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing. The Database of Environmental Information for Products and Services includes product-specific information with environmental standards, guidelines and contract language used by federal, state, and local governments.

EPA Office of Solid Waste Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
http://www.epa.gov/cpg
See recycled content requirements at http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/procure
site provides EPA procurement guidelines, EPA documents, information on proposing products for designation, and additional recycled product site links.

EPA Waste Wi$e Buy Recycled
http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/
site includes information, resources, and success stories on business buy-recycled efforts.

GrassRoots Recycling Network
http://www.grrn.org
has information on zero waste.

Green Building News
http://www.oikos.com, www.BuildingGreen.com, www.greenspec.com
site provides a recycled building products directory as well as news updates for the design and construction industries.

Green Seal
http://www.greenseal.org
site lists recycled and environmentally preferable products evaluated through life cycle assessment and qualified for the Green Seal label.

Janitorial Products Pollution Prevention Project
http://www.westp2net.org/Janitorial/jp4.htm
presents information on dangerous cleaning chemicals and safer alternatives.

King County Procurement Information System
http://www.metrokc.gov/finance/procure
includes contract clauses, policies, vendor lists, product performance histories and more.

Massachusetts Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/osd/enviro/enviro.htm

National Association of Counties (NACO)
http://www.naco.org/programs/environ/
Environmental Purchasing Campaign has a helpful starter kit.

National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO)
http://www.fcn.state.fl.us/bpsr/drc_notice.html
provides a database of recycled products searchable by brand name, common name, distributor, manufacturer, post-consumer content, price, etc.

Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
http://www.ofee.gov
site presents Executive Order 13101, "Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition," and other buy recycled/recycling information.

Scientific Certification Systems, Inc.
http://www.scs1.com
third party verification of recycled content and other environmental attributes of products, qualifying items to carry Green Cross emblem.

Smart Office
http://smartoffice.com
provides information on recycled and green office supplies, furnishings, interior building materials, recycling and source reduction economics for business.

Tire Retread Information Bureau
http://www.retread.org
questions & answers on tires.

BUY RECYCLED LISTSERVES

Cooperative Purchasing Hotline
http://www.merced.k12.ca.us/support/list1.htm
to share purchasing information among educational and public-sector communities.

Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement Listserve (EPPNET)
http://www.nerc.org/eppnet.html
links federal, state, local and private procurement and environmental officials charged with purchasing environmentally preferable products.

Green Building News
http://www.oikos.com
Go to site and sign up for email news feed.

Initiative on Recycling Listserve
[email protected]
To join the list to promote recycled products send an email with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Other Buy Recycled Resources (including phone numbers)

Batteries (re-conditioned): Advance Batteries in Santa Monica, CA (310) 450-1630.

Buy Recycled Business Alliance: 30-page guide on implementing a buy recycled program, (703) 683-9025, Ext. 403.

California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB): Jerry Hart (916) 341-6473.

California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA): (916)441-2772, http://www.crra.com.

CalMAX (California MAterials EXchange): toll-free (877) 520-9703.

Chlorine Free Paper: Claude Nelson, Rolland, Inc., (800) 567-9872; Jakob Jonsson (888) 807-8672; Terry Smith, Scheufelen North America, (800) 551-2470; Ed Kalupa, Manistique Papers, (800) 743-2389; Seventh Generation, (800) 456-1191; Chlorine Free Products Association, Mika Valtasaari, (847) 658-6104.

Cleaning Products: The City of Santa Monica has a list of companies that offer environmental products, which include: The Clean Environment (The Natural Product Line) (800) 266-2353; Biochem Systems (Bio-T product line) from Mamco International (800) 442-4686; AFM (619) 239-0321; Harvey Universal (800) 800-3330; Naturally Yours (417) 889-3995; Enviro Care (800) 688-7642; BCD International (800) 422-9290; Water-based parts cleaner, Colleen Hassell at Dura Chem 714-630-4100.

Certified Forest Products Council: promotes responsible forest products buying practices. (503) 590-6600, http://www.certifiedwood.org.

Environmental Defense chart comparing energy consumption of virgin vs. recycled packaging materials: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/Alliance/Merge/production%20energy.htm.

Federal Facilities Master Specification Manual: available free from Shelly Worsham, Department of Energy (510) 486-6123.

L.A. Shares: materials reuse program, Bert Ball (213) 485-1097, http://www.lashares.org.

National Association of Counties (NACO): Environmental Purchasing Campaign and Cooperative Purchasing Alliance, Tony Hayes (202) 393-6226.

National Office Paper Recycling Project: US Conference of Mayors, (202) 293-7330.

Natural Gas Master Contract: available to all California counties and cities, (916) 323-6295.

Office supplies: discounts for counties and cities at Office Depot, Kevin Juhring, (800) 890-4914 ext. 6224.

Oil filters: Delta Four in Sun Valley (818) 767-2302 recycles vehicle oil filters.

Plastic board (from plastic milk bottles): Janusetcie, Los Angeles (310) 652-7090.

Recycled Paper Master Contract: available to all California counties and cities. Contact Janco's at (916) 391-4684.

Recycled Paper Coalition: has fact sheets. (650) 985-5568, http://www.papercoalition.org.

Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Technology Center: (888) 777-4775.

Rubberized sidewalks: US Rubber Recycling Inc. (909) 466-4365.