For more information on how to build an exceptional recycling program for your community, click here. Encouraging proper recycling and waste disposal is not an easy task to begin with, and it can be even more challenging on a community-wide scale. That’s why we’ve compiled the 9 best reads that will help you implement an award-winning waste and recycling program! Standardize your program, add more recycling stations, reduce contamination—these are all the typical phrases you’ll hear in the recycling community about how to improve diversion…

An overview of the Economic, Social & Environmental benefits associated with building a solid waste management program. Implementing and maintaining a community recycling program is never as simple as curbside collection or purchasing and placing containers in high traffic areas. Many challenges arise from collection, to litter prevention, to program communication. Most municipalities have focused their recycling efforts toward curbside collection, but many have found success in adding recycling to their public community spaces such as parks, recreational centers, and municipal buildings. It has always…