Additional Resources

Resources at Yale

  • STEP @ Yale  Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership

  • Yale Office of Sustainability

  • Green Purchasing at Yale  Learn more about how you can help Yale meet its Sustainability Goals by making more environmentally friendly purchases and choices.  Includes information for purchasing equipment, office supplies, catering supplies and much more!

Online Resources on Recycling, Manufacturing, Waste, & Waste Minimization

  • CT DEP: Buy Recycled Explains the different meanings of recycled content lables and provides resources on buying recycled products for home, work, and many other settings.

  • CT DEP: Recycling... It's the Law!  Explains the legal side of recycling in Connecticut, including which items must be recycled by law.  

  • Environmental Benefits of Recycling - Update 2010 A review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector.  Compares the practices of recycling, landfilling, and incineration with energy recovery.

  • Improving Recycling Markets  An OECD report analyzing the circustances that lead to inefficiencies in recycling markets and how these could be avoided.

  • Understanding Economic and Environmental Impacts of Single Stream Collection Systems  A report on the pros and cons of single stream recycling. 

  • Leveling the Playing Field for Recycling  A report on subsidies for virgin materials.

  • The Secret Life of...  A video series by INFORM, Inc. that sheds light on the sourcing and disposal of paper, cell phones, and more.

  • The Story of Stuff  The internet sensation that tells the story of the materials economy - that enormous, intricate, and essentially flawed system that brings everything we purchase into our lives and homes.

  • TerraCycle  This company makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials.  Check out which materials they are collecting and the new products they are creating.

  • Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia  A 2002 report by the Basel Action Network and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition on the effects of informal e-waste recycling operations in Asia.

  • Environmental, Social, and Economic Implications of Reuse and Recycling of Personal Computers  An article exploring the pros and cons of e-waste recycling and how to improve this industry.  Williams, E. D., B. R. Allenby, and E. Kavazanjian. 2008. Environmental Science & Technology

Books

  • The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. By Pietra Rivoli. Wiley, 2005.