Recycling at Naval Shore Installations: One Means of Curbing the 'Garbage Glut'

摘要

The document provides techniques and strategies to aid Federal recycling programmanagers. Highlights the major laws and regulations that stimulated recycling within the Department of Defense, discusses several benefits of recycling, and addressees start-up and operating costs associated with a recycling program. Briefly examines the Navy's current recycling efforts at shore activities; and contends that the real breakthrough in effective solid waste management will only come when intense recycling is combined with reducing waste at the source, expanding the use recycled materials, and investing in better research and development.