North Carolina

For those of you who want to recycle your product's waste materials instead of trash them, North Carolina's Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance has made finding a recycler of everything from food to textiles as simple as turning on your computer.

The Web-based Directory of Markets for Recyclable Materials (http://www.p2pays.org/dmrm) includes a list of companies that purchase recyclable materials and a history of each firm listed. Once you've found a potential buyer, contacting the company to negotiate payment and transportation is up to you.

In addition to information on North Carolina recyclers, the site includes links to industry trade groups and recycling markets in other states.

This article was originally published in the August 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: North Carolina.