Successful recycling requires the procurement of post-consumer recycled content products. Recycled products are an excellent alternative to virgin wood, saving numerous resources -- trees, landfill space, energy and water.

RCA Documents

How to Encourage Forest-friendly Purchasing [Get Acrobat]

Demanding Change in Wood & Paper Markets, Multinational Monitor

Other Documents

• Conservatree's Recycled Paper Brochure
• Achieving Excellence Through Recycled Building Materials, Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
• Growing A Buy Recycled Purchasing Program: A Manager's Guide
• How Government Building Codes and Construction Standards Discourage Recycling
• Recycled Paper News
• Yale Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy

links

• Buy Recycled Business Alliance
• Conservatree
• EPA: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• EPA: Recycling
• National Recycling Coalition
• Northeast Recycling Council
• Recycled Paper Coalition
• US Conf. of Mayors: Recycling at Work
• ...recycling
• ...recycled buying clubs