“Royte is a natural storyteller and skillful natural historian. Few others could have pulled off turning our feculence into fascination.” Kirkus Reviews

About Garbage Land and Elizabeth Royte:

• The author’s website for Garbage Land
• The “What to do” section of this site includes photographs by Chris Jordan. Look at his amazingly disturbing exhibit – Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption
• Interview with Elizabeth Royte in 2005 – 36 minutes
• Book review in Mother Jones
• Book review in New York Times
• Book review Washington Post

Background on landfills and composting:

• How landfills work
• How composting works

Local Resources for Recycling and Composting:

• City of Champaign – recycling household products
• City of Urbana – a listing of alternatives to landfill disposal
• Landscape Recycling Center
• University of Illinois Extension – composting in the home garden

Zero Waste, Recycling and Garbage Related Action

• Can an average person really create Zero Waste? Find out at The Rubbish Diet.
• Beyond Recycling challenges whether waste can ever be sustainable.
• Jon Rolls, Executive Director of ReZolve Kernow strives to make his household Zero Waste during Cornwall’s Zero Waste Week.
• Eco-Cycle, working to build Zero Waste communities.

Other Resources:

• NPR program Morning Edition has been doing a series on trash and recycling this week that can be viewed and heard on npr.org. This is a link to one of the stories.
• The Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC) provides resources for the exploration of a wide range of issues impacting waste management in Illinois. Two of their best resources are Environmental Reference Guides on environmental topics, and a content-rich blog, Environmental News Bits (“browsing over 100 environmental news sources so that you don’t have to”).
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions
• Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship that empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability.
• Fed up of all those pesky print catalog? Use catalogchoice.org to remove your name from mailing lists.
• Musicians go green in Plentymag.  

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