Free Listservs (Not MRC-sponsored)

Resource Recycling Electronic Newsletters.  Resource Recycling is a company that has provided numerous publications and periodicals available by subscription. They also host national conferences for the professional recycling community. The company also offers three free electronic newsletters that focus on general recycling, E-scrap and plastics.

Publications, Videos, etc. (Not-MRC sponsored)

The Story of Electronics - Why 'Designed for the Dump' is Toxic for People and the Planet.  This  new video brought to you by the Story of Stuff Project focuses on the growing amount of electronics we use and dispose.  The video provides a simple but painful look at how the design of quickly replaced electronic gadgets are causing health and environmental problems but also provides some hope for change that is beginning to take hold through product stewardship and extended producer responsibility.

NASA Gives Kids Their Own Guide to Climate Change.  This guide targets grades four through 6 and is a kid-friendly guide demystifying one of the most important science issues of our time.  One of the Big Questions focuses on what one can do.  Here you will find how reducing, reusing and recycling can make a difference.

Trash, Inc.,:  The Secret Life of Garbage.  This CNBC program broadcast in the fall of 2010.  From the website:
"Garbage. It's everywhere — even in the middle of the oceans — and it's pure gold for companies like Waste Management and Republic Services who dominate this $52 billion-a-year industry. From curbside collection by trucks costing $250,000 each, to per-ton tipping fees at landfills, there's money to be made at every point as more than half of the 250 million tons of trash created in the United States each year reaches its final resting place.
At a cost of $1 million per acre to construct, operate and ultimately close in an environmentally feasible method, modern landfills are technological marvels — a far cry from the town dump that still resonates in most people's perceptions. Not only do they make money for their owners, they add millions to the economic wellbeing of the towns that house them. Technologies, such as Landfill Natural Gas and Waste To Energy, are giving garbage a second life, turning trash into power sources and helping to solve mounting problems. It's particularly important in places like Hawaii, where disposal space is an issue, and in China, where land and energy are needed and trash is plentiful."