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Pinkalicious volume 5
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English
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Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
2) Ship Breaker
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 16
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The garbage collectors in Britain are still called dustmen, and Lochdubh's dustman is an abusive drunk named Fergus Macleod. When Fergus is put in charge of a recycling center and dubbed the "environment officer." Constable Hamish Macbeth smells trouble piling up. Sure enough, Fergus becomes a bullying tyrant with his new power, issuing unwarranted fines and blackmailing residents. And when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one's sorry,...
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Leisure Arts
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Create extraordinary handmade gifts and decorative accents by recycling everyday household items such as detergent boxes, wallpaper scraps, chipped dishes, and more. TRASH TO TREASURE is jam-packed with 125 economical, earth-friendly projects--each accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and radiant full-color photographs. Use your creativity to turn everyday "trash" into delightful "treasures".
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Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From bestselling author Yuval Zommer, The Big Book of Nature Art is packed with twenty-two easy art activities inspired by nature. Each of the activities can be achieved in four simple steps using natural materials combined with recycled or found materials from around the home. Drawing on Zommer's years of experience running art workshops for children, The Big Book of Nature Art includes his tips for stress-free ways to get creative with kids. Each...
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"An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life -- throwing things out -- and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture -- the trash it produces -- and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century,...
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University of Colorado Recycling Services
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2008.
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English
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The University of Colorado Recycling Services (CU Recycling), was contracted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's (CDPHE) Pollution Prevention Assistance Committee (PPAC) to develop and implement a system to collect, manage, and share baseline data on sources of reused, recycled, and composted materials and potential users of these materials within the Colorado.
10) Recycling
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Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Shows how the ever-growing tide of refuse threatens the environment and wastes resources, and how recycling helps in conservation efforts.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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English
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Curious George is back, exploring new things like recycling, gardening, and helping the environment. As always, he can use a little help from his friends, including the Man with the Yellow Hat. Time to set a course for adventure with eight new shows.
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Research publication volume no. 728
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Colorado Legislative Council
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2019.
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English
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, [Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division]
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2009.
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English
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This is intended as general guidance for businesses that generate smaller quantities of certain wastes that may not have ready access to appropriate disposal programs. It is also intended to encourage local governments and regional county cooperatives to develop household collection programs for one or more of these wastes, or a combined collection program for business and household wastes.
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Pollution Prevention Program
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2003.
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English
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Many businesses have been able to significantly improve their bottom line through concerted efforts to identify and reduce the generation of waste of all types. Other benefits of pollution prevention waste reduction include improved environmental compliance, reduced regulatory burden, reduced hazardous waste liabilities, improved worker health and safety, and improved public image.
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Skumatz Economic Research Associates
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2008.
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English
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According to BioCycle magazine, Colorado's diversion rate languishes at a low 12.5%. This puts Colorado in the lowest 20% of states in terms of recycling rate, in the company of states like West Virginia, South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama, and others. States around the country that are finding recycling rates stagnating are looking at options for next steps in energizing diversion progress. This project is designed to explore the State of Colorado's...
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Environmental Integration and Sustainability
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2009.
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English
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The Advanced Technology Grant (ATG) Program is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado...