REDUCING LANDFILL WASTE ONCE STEP AT A TIME

 Use the Recyclopedia search tool to find out if something is acceptable to recycle at home, 

if you need to drop it off, or if it is trash.  Use the search bar or scroll through the featured topics below. 

Use the map search bar to set your location; 

Recyclopedia will show you nearby drop-off sites and other solutions.

Stop most advertisements: Check out the Association of National Advertisers’ DMAchoice tool. This service lets you stop delivery of catalogues, magazine offers and other junk items from charities, banks and national brands.

A stuffed mailbox probably contains marketing items, along with the usual bills and correspondence.  DMAchoice says this will stop 80 percent of promotional offers since marketers would rather contact people willing to receive their mail. You can register online for $4, or by mail for $5, to stop deliveries for 10 years. There are options to stop mail for a deceased relative and even electronic spam.

 Catalog Choice’s mission is to stop junk mail for good. Catalog Choice is passionate about helping protect natural resources and helping you simplify your life. Use this free service to cancel specific catalogs and other types of paper mail you no longer wish to receive. 

If you don't want to or can't backyard compost, try community composting with us!

The effortless, odorless food recycler.

Keep your kitchen clean — and green. Mill recycles your food scraps without smells, flies, or chores. It works automatically, and you can keep filling it for weeks.

Plastic Free Delaware (Zero Waste First State) earns an affiliate fee when you order a Mill using this link!

Curious about composting but worried it’s too gross or smelly? Maybe you’re ready to stop sending your food scraps to the landfill but worried you don’t have the time for one. more. thing. right now?

WasteWell provides curbside composting services to the areas listed below.

WasteWell provides curbside collection services to residential and small business neighbors in and around the following communities:

• Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
• Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania
• Chester Heights, Pennsylvania
• Franklin Station neighborhood (Media, Pennsylvania)
• Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
• Centreville, Delaware
• Greenville, Delaware
• Talleyville, Delaware
• Highlands + Forty Acres + Wawaset Park + Trolley Square neighborhoods (Wilmington, Delaware)

Nearby but not in our service area? Send an email and they might be able to help you out.

Mother Nurture offers subscription options that provide 5-gallon bins for you to fill with your household food waste. Every other week, on your scheduled day, just place the bin(s) on your curb and we'll 

For larger, institutional use such as restaurants, hospitals and schools, on-site digesters that decompose various types of food waste to liquid effluent for disposal to sewers have been recognized as one solution for on-site diversion of food waste from landfills. In addition to diverting large amounts of organic waste from landfills, on-site bio-digesters minimize logistical effort needed to handle and dispose of food waste.  DSWA has partnered with Keep DE Beautiful to assist a wide range of large food waste producers the opportunity to use a BioHiTech digester in their facility to help reduce the amount of food waste ending up in the landfill.  Grantees must be willing to share their results at 6 months and one year after implementation.

We welcome partnership opportunities and more suggestions for this Resource page.  Reach out to us to say hello.