King County Environmental Purchasing Program

Resources For Buyers

• Introduction
• Organizations
• Periodicals
• Listservs
• For More Information

Introduction

This section is intended to help buyers find further information about the purchase and use of recycled and environmentally preferable products.

Organizations

Center for a New American Dream (CNAD)

Responsible Purchasing Network
Center for a New American Dream
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 900
Takoma Park, MD 20912
(301)891-3683
E-mail: Chris O'Brien

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing assistance

Clean Washington Center
c/o PNWER

World Trade Center West
2200 Alaskan Way, Suite 460
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone: (206) 443-7724

• Technical publications
• recycling market development

Industrial Materials Exchange (IMEX)
506 2nd Ave. Rm. 201
Seattle, WA 98104
(206)296-4899
E-mail:  imex@metrokc.gov

• Free waste exchange (Pacific Northwest)

King County Department of Natural Resources
Solid Waste Division
201 South Jackson Street, Suite 702
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 296-6542

• Link-Up Program:  resources for businesses to incorporate more recycled materials into their products
• Green Building Program

METRO, Portland
Recycling and Waste Reduction

(503)234-3000 Metro Recycling

E-mail:  mri@metro-region.org

• Construction Site Recycling Guide.
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Tips
• Natural Gardening

National Association of Counties (NACo)
440 First Street, N.W.
Suite #800
Washington, D.C. 20001

(202)393-6226

• Local Government Environmental Purchasing Starter Kit

National Recycling Coalition(NRC)
1325 G St. NW

Washington, DC 2005

(202)347-0450

E-mail:  info@nrc-recycle.org

• Buy-Recycled Business Alliance: Promotes the purchase of recycled products by businesses.
• Annual Recycling Conference

Resource Venture

Seattle Chamber of Commerce
1301 5th Avenue, Suite 2400
Seattle, Washington 98101

(206) 389-7304
E-mail: help@resourceventure.org

• Technical assistance to Seattle businesses

Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation
2021 Third Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121

(206) 441-1790

Email: info@wastenotwashington.org 

• Recycling and conservation issues, quarterly newsletter for members.

Washington State Recycling Association
6100 Southcenter Blvd
Suite 180
Tukwila, WA 98188-2486
(206) 244-0311
E-mail:  wsra@wsra.net

• Recycling industry group, monthly newsletter.

Pollution Prevention Resource Center

513 1st Ave. W

Seattle, WA 98119
(206)352-2050

E-mail: office@pprc.org

• promotes environmental protection through pollution prevention

Periodicals

BioCycle

c/o JG Press

419 State Avenue
Emmaus, PA 18049
E-mail: Biocycle@jgpress.com

• Composting and recycling; monthly magazine.

Environmental Building News
122 Birge Street, Suite 30
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802/257-7300 phone
E-mail: info@buildinggreen.com

• Environmentally-aware construction: bi-monthly magazine.

green@work

L.C. Clark Publishing Co.
840 U.S. Hwy. One, Ste. 330
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
(561) 627-3393
E-mail: comments@isdesignet.com

• Sustainable principle information with lots of success stories for the public and private sector:  bi-montly magazine

Recycling Today

4012 Bridge Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44113-3320

(800)456-0707

• General recycling industry issues: monthly magazine.

Resource Recycling

P.O. Box 42270
Portland, OR 97242-0270

(503) 233-1305 voice
E-mail: info@resource-recycling.com

• General recycling issues, markets, equipment and products: monthly magazine.

Sustainable Industries Journal Northwest

3941 SE Hawthorne Blvd

Portland, OR 97214

Ph: (503)226-7798

 

Monthly newsletter.