Sustainability Resources

Appliances

• Alliant Energy
• Mid American Energy

Batteries

• ​Call2Recycle
• Battery and Cell Phone Dropoff Locations
• The Race to Crack Battery Recycling - Before It's Too Late​​​
  

Bottles

• Ankeny Area Redemption Center (Ankeny)
• Mid-American Recycling

Building Materials

• Habitat for Humanity
• U.S. Green Building Council

Cans

• Ankeny Area Redemption Center (Ankeny)
• Mid-American Recycling

Carbon Footprint

• Carbon Foot Print

Conservation

• Conservation International

• DMACC Earth Day

Earth Awareness

• Earth Hour
• Energy Efficiency
• Environmental Protection Agency

Electronics

• Midwest Electronic Recovery (Clive)

Energy Alternatives​

• Electric Vehicles Initiative
• Electric Vehicles​
  
• Global EV Outlook
  
• Planning for Home Renewable Energy Systems
  

Farming

• Practical Farmers of Iowa

Fuel

• Biodiesel Information

Food

• Buy Fresh Buy Local - Drake University
• Choose My Plate
• Economic Research Service USDA
• Food Sustainability
• Iowa Food Cooperative
• Local Harvest
• Sustainable Agriculture - Leopold Center ISU

General Recycling

• Boone County Landfill and Recycling Center (Boone County)
• Carroll County Waste Management (Carroll County)
• Dallas County Recycling (Dallas County)
• Jasper County Dumpster Source (Jasper County)
• Metro Waste Authority (Polk County)
• Patterson Redemption Center (Des Moines)
• Story County Resource Recovery (Story County)

• Higher Education

• Iowa Association for Energy Efficiency

Household Hazardous Materials

• ​Iowa Department of Natural Resources
  
• Common Hazardous Materials
• EPA - Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)

Metal - Scrap

• Scrap Processors, Inc.

Paper

• Recycling, Inc.

Plastic

• Recycle Me Iowa

Recycling

• Recycling 101

Savings

• ​Big Green Purse
  
• Sustainable Communities

Unit Conversaion

• Unit Conversion

Videos

• Story of Stuff Video
• Forks Over Knives