Establishes requirements that protect trees and forests during and after development activity, and requirements for afforestation and reforestation of land within the city.
Requires counties in the state with less than 200,000 acres of forest to set aside forest acreage for preservation. Washington County's Forest Conservation Ordinance provides an example.
Catalogs composting regulations across a variety of states and large cities, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, NYC, Austin, and San Francisco. The Council has also published a Model Composting Rule Template.
The FAO’s brief report surveys the carbon footprint of food waste, the carbon intensities of different food types, and food waste reduction scenarios.
Takes a national snapshot of composting practices and identifies model public policies and programs.
Provides a systematic approach to estimate consumer level food waste on a country scale and globally, based on food availability and requirements.
The Electronics TakeBack Coalition’s 2013 spreadsheet comparing state laws on electronics recycling provides a survey of states with producer responsibility laws and other models.
A public-private partnership researching, designing, implementing, evaluating, and promoting producer responsibility laws and voluntary programs that solve recycling and waste management issues to create a circular economy.
The Container Recycling Institute’s projects at bottlebill.org and container-recycling.org document active and proposed bottle bills in the US and abroad.
The 2017 report from the Northeast Recycling Council catalogs disposal bans and mandatory recycling laws across all 50 states.