A guide to starting a home collection and recycling program
Subtitle: source separation manual
By: prepared by ABAG
Publisher: Association of Bay Area Governments
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Source separation (Recycling); Handbooks, manuals; Recycling industry; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Waste minimization; Refuse collection
Other titles: Starting a home collection and recycling program; Source separation manual
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction. An introduction to garbage; title: What happens to garbage: the current solid waste management situation in the Bay Area; title: Waste reduction and resource recovery.; title: What can be done. Introduction; title: What materials can be recycled?; title: Ho do you determine who will participate?; title: How do you determine where program will operate?; title: How will program operate?; title: Home collection and recycling: planning, start-up, operation. Introduction; title: Program planning; title: Program start-up.; title: Appendix A. Resource recovery in the Bay Area; title: Appendix B. Examples of existing source separation programs; title: Appendix C. Waste generation; title: Appendix D. Example of questionnaire card to estimate participation in a hone pick-up recycling program; title: Appendix E. Market information; title: Appendix F. Examples of marketing contracts and agreements; title: Appendix G. Examples of local ordinances; title: Appendix H. Example of buyer's procedures for secondary material; title: Appendix I. Examples of promotional material for source separation programs; title: Appendix J. Guidelines for a community awareness program.