Suggested Reading List: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Books for Adults

• All About Compost by Pauline Pears

• Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings by Harmonious
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• Beautiful Junk by Karen Brackett and Rosie Manley

• Beyond Forty Percent: Record Setting Recycling and Composting Programs by Brenda Platt

• Beyond Recycling: A Re-user's Guide by Kathy Stein

• Choose to Reuse: An Encyclopedia of Services, Businesses, Tools and Charitable Programs that Facilitate Reuse by Nikki Goldbeck

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart

• Creative Crafting with Recycled Greeting Cards by Catherine Lawrence

• Easy Recycling Handbook: What to Recycle & How to Buy Recycled…… by Dee McVicker

• Experiments That Explore Recycling by Martin J. Gutnik

• Garbage & Other Pollution: How do We Live with All the Trash? by Mark Siegel

• Garbage and Other Pollution (Information Plus Reference Series) by Cornelia Blair

• Green Living: Eco-friendly Homes, Organic Food, Saving Energy, Recycling by Sarah Callard and Dine Mills

• Guide to Buying Recycled Products for Consumers and Small Business by the Pennsylvania Resources Council

• Household Waste: Issues and Opportunities by Andy Knaus

• Household Waste: (Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Rethink) by Kate Walker

• In Defense of Garbage by Judd H. Alexander

• McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition by Herbert F. Lund

• Organic Waste Recycling, 2nd Edition by Chongrak Polpraset

• Packaging and the Environment: Alternatives, Trends and Solutions by Susan E. Selke

• Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World by Daniel Imhoff and Roberto Carr

• Plastics: America’s Packaging Dilemma: Environmental Action Coalition by Nancy Wold and Ellen Feldman

• Pollution, Recycling, Trash, and Litter by Doris Roettger

• Recycled Paper: From Start To Finish by Samuel Woods and Gale Tucker

• Recycling by Rosemary Border

• Recycling: 101 Practical Tips for Home and Work (Earth Pulse hand book) by the Windstar Foundation

• Recycling (Making a Better World) by Gary Chandler and Kevin Graham

• Recycling and Incineration: Evaluating the Choices by Richard Denison

• Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste by Matthew Gandy

• Recycling and Waste Management Guide to the Internet by Roger M. Guttentag

• Recycling in America: A Reference Handbook by Debra L. Strong and Kimball

• Recycling: Lost & Found (How is Paper Recycled?, Why Recycle? Paper Recycling Poster, etc.)— CD-ROMs, teachers materials by TAPPI Press

• Rubber Recycling by Sadhan K. De

• Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by William l. Rathje and Cullen Murphy

• Taking out the Trash: A no-nonsense guide to Recycling by Jennifer Carless

• The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists by Michael Brower and Warren Leon

• The Consumer’s Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste by the Office of Solid Waste, EPA

• The Economics of Waste by Porter C. Richard

• The Envelope Mill: Recycle Magazines and Other Paper Products into Beautifully Crafted Envelopes by Haila Harvy or Haila Crowell

• The Plastic Waste Primer: A Handbook for Citizens by the League of Women Voters

• The Recycler’s Handbook by Earthworks Press

• The Rummager’s Handbook: Finding, Buying, Cleaning, Fixing, Using and Selling Secondhand Treasures by R.S. McClurg

• The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water by Sim Van Der Ryn

• The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators and the Search for a Sustainable Future by H.Y. Tammemagi

• Trash to Treasure: The Year’s Best Creative Crafts by Anne Van Wagner Childs

• Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development by Adam S. Weinberg, David N. Pellow and Allan Schnaiberg

• War on Waste: Can America Win the Battle With Garbage by Lois Blumberg and Robert Gootlieb

• Waste Age and Recycling Times: Recycling Handbook by Lewis Publishers

• Waste and Want: A Social history of Trash by Susan Strasser

• Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy by Frank Ackerman