City of Charlottesville's Public Service Department

Albemarle County's Recycling Information   www.albemarle.org/

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's Litter Prevention and Recycling Program homepage   www.deq.state.va.us/recycle/

Chittenden Solid Waste District-Facilities Materials Receiving Facility (MRF). www.cswd.net/facilities/material_recovery.shtml

EPA Garbage Gremlin A story about how kids in one community stopped the Garbage Gremlin by reducing, reusing, and recycling.  www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/gremlin/gremlin.htm

EPA's Superfund Program  Impress your friends! Learn about  and then practice using 26 words we use when we clean up the environment. www.epa.gov/oerrpage/superfund/kids/stories.htm

Planet Protectors' Club Join and help protect the earth! At the "club," you can play fun games and solve cool puzzles! www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/

Recycle City  Visit the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Recycle City to learn what you can do to help protect the environment. Click on the Dumptown Game, create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt, go to the Activities Area and see other ways you can explore Recycle City and put its good ideas to use. www.epa.gov/recyclecity/

Charlottesville Habitat Store The Habitat Store supports Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville by selling new and salvaged building materials to the public at discounted prices. www.cvillehabitatstore.org

AHIP The Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP) is a private, non-profit housing and community development organization dedicated to assisting low income Albemarle County and Charlottesville City residents to have the opportunity to live in safe, decent and affordable housing. AHIP will pursue its mission by facilitating programs and services, and assisting low income families and individuals to acquire and/or maintain a home. It is the conviction of AHIP that the opportunity to live in adequate shelter is a basic human right. www.ahipva.org

RWSA The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) is an independent public agency providing impoundment, treatment, storage and transmission of potable water and transport and treatment of wastewater for the citizens of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. www.rivanna.com/home.html