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  • ODNR Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention - The Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention is a division of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Our web site contains information on recycling, market development, waste reduction, litter prevention and buying recycled in Ohio.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.