Recycling and Litter Prevention Homepage
Recycling and Litter Prevention
- DEQ's Recycling and Litter Prevention staff would like to wish all visitors to this website Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! Join us in keeping Virginia "green" and litter free, and Thank You for all You do to reduce, reuse and recycle.
- CY 2010 Virginia Recycling Rate Report New!
- CY 2011 Recycling Rate Report form now available! (Guidance for form)
- Keep abreast of recycling news by reading our electronic newsletter, Recycling Lines.
- EPA Report - Reducing Green House Gas Emissions through Recycling and Composting
- Performance and Accounting Report - FY 2011 (information on litter & recycling grants to localities)
- Teaching Kids About Recycling (general recycling information and links to various recycling related activities/web sites
- Battery Recycling Information
- For State Agencies: need guidance on compliance with Executive Order 19? Visit the following web links: Virginia Environmental Excellence Program (EMS) and State Agency EO 19 Information.
- Want to set up recycling in your office? Visit the following site to review and download a commercial business guide to setting up recycling in an office: www.afandpa.org
- Virginia's Manual on the Business of Recycling
- Go Green Initiative Handbook (Designing a recycling and/or composting program for schools (Kindergarten - University Level)
- Management of Fluorescent Bulbs by Businesses - a guidance document. For location queries, visit www.earth911.com.
- Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: 1) A Fact Sheet on the use of CFLs in the Home and Office. 2) 2011 EPA guidelines on CFL clean up in homes. 3) Free CFL recycling now offered by IKEA and Home Depot stores, and there are mail-in options to various vendors. 4) Many local governments now offer CFL recycling through Household Hazardous Waste Collection events or at drop-off sites. 5) Visit www.earth911.com for additional site information. A common question to DEQ which often can be best answered by visiting your locality's recycling website or the Earth911 website. (visit the links indicated)
The Recycling Program works closely with recycling program managers, as well as with local governments and solid waste planning units to ensure that their recycling programs are able to meet or exceed the state's mandated recycling rates. Program staff provide guidance on recycling topics and programs, tracks and reports on Virginia's recycling efforts, and works with businesses, localities, other state agencies and environmental groups to promote environmental awareness through recycling. Staff work with the interested parties from the public and private sectors to identify opportunities to strengthen the state's recycling infrastructures. The program is part of DEQ's Division of Land Protection & Revitalization. For questions about recycling topics, including waste tire management and used oil topics, contact Steve Coe.
The Litter Prevention Program coordinates the distribution of annual grants to localities for recycling and litter activities, provides information and guidance on litter prevention and recycling topics, and works with localities, litter prevention program managers, and environmental groups on improving awareness of how litter damages the environment. Program staff track and report on how localities use their grants to support their litter prevention and recycling programs. DEQ staff works closely with the Litter Control and Recycling Fund Advisory Board on the grant process. The program is part of the Virginia Office of Environmental Education. For questions about litter prevention topics, contact Sheila Barnett.
Use the links provided to access specific information about Virginia's Recycling and Litter Prevention Program activities.
DEQ Central Office mailing addresses:
Department of Environmental QualityP.O. Box 1105
Richmond, Va. 23218
Department of Environmental Quality
629 E. Main Street
Richmond, VA 23219