Sustainability

Since 1997, communities across the country have come together once a year to celebrate America Recycles Day. The goal is to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling and promote reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Info and resources on recycling electronic products

The EPA's Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures Fact Sheet report includes data like materials type, paper, glass, metals, plastics, food scraps, yard trimmings, and other materials. This fact sheet also examines trends in recycling, combustion, and landfill disposal.

EPA statistics on U.S. waste generation, recycling, an disposal of MSW, from1960 to 2010.

For publications on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Basic info about the cleanup process, accomplishments, and performance measures

Access the latest Solid Waste Report for Virginia.

Every year, DEQ publishes an annual summary recycling report that provides details on recycling conducted by each solid waste planning unit along with a state recycling rate calculation based on the data provided by these planning units.

State initiatives and goals; National and state trends; past annual recycling reports and statistics. Links out to monthly newsletters, resources for schools, and special programs and organizations.

Federal info resources on hazardous and non-hazardous waste

For info on cleanup laws, regulations and tech.

For federal and state info on regulated facilities

EPA uses risk assessment to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and ecological receptors from chemical contaminants and other stressors that may be present in the environment.

The National Priorities List (NPL) is the list of sites of national priority among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories.

Check for Superfund priority sites in your area.