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Explains recycling, man's need of it, and present and suggested methods of performing the task for reusing waste materials. ... Read more

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In Creating by Recycling,you'll learn how to:

• Turn an old plastic bottle into aprecious piggy bank
• Turn paper towel rolls into adashing desk organizer
• Turn egg cartons into a craftycrocodile
• Plus much much more!

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This is a wonderful book for parents with young children.The materials you need are usually around the house, there are only a few you may need to buy. Supervision is important.The kids enjoy doing these projects with parents or at daycare.I thought this was a wonderful book. I found it at the library and decided to buy it because it had so many projects and the library only lets you have it for so long and only one renewal. ... Read more

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Older--and often economically depressed--industrial cities generally have a number of well located but abandoned industrial sites. Too frequently these sites are heavily polluted by the residue of toxic wastes dumped when old factories were still in use. These "brownfield" sites must be cleaned up under existing law before they can be redeveloped. And yet the question of who will bear the cost of this cleanup frequently stymies efforts to return these sites to productive use. A complicated net of federal, state and local regulations can involve several generations of owners in potential liability for the cleanup, frequently resulting only in extended litigation, not often in the cleanup of the site. In this book, Elizabeth Glass Geltman surveys the laws on both the federal and state level with regard to the cleanup of brownfield sites. The author makes valuable suggestions for reforming these laws that will help encourage land reuse and the accompanying redevelopment of the industrial base of many American cities both large and small.
Elizabeth Glass Geltman is Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School and is the author of many books on environmental law, including Modern Environmental Law: Policy and Practice.
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A cutting-edge collection of essays explores the ways in which race, nationhood, global economics, gender, sexuality, and class shape domesticity in varied geographical-historical locations. Together, these essays invite us to confront the gaps and erasures in most academic and mainstream accounts of domesticity and to recognize domesticity as a manifestation of larger influences. ... Read more

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Composting and Recycling Municipal Solid Waste is a comprehensive guide that identifies, describes, explains, and evaluates the options available when composting and recycling municipal solid waste (MSW). The book begins with an introductory chapter on the nature of MSW and the importance of solid waste management programs and resource recovery. Chapter 2 discusses MSW storage and collection, with emphasis on recyclables. Chapter 3 examines issues involved in determining the quantity, composition, and key physical characteristics of the MSW to be managed and processed. The book's other chapters cover topics such as the steps required for processing MSW for material recovery, the use of uncomposted organic matter as a soil amendment, composting and use of compost product, the marketing of recyclables, biogasification, and integrated waste management. Composting and Recycling Municipal Solid Waste provides essential information needed by solid waste professionals, consultants, regulators, and planners to arrive at rational decisions regarding available economic and technological resources for MSW composting and recycling.Features ... Read more

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Lots of kids think of running away from home. But what's a kid to do when his home runs away from him?

That's what happens to twelve-year-old George Honiker when his sister and brother-in-law move out of the Versailles Trailer Park while George is at school. Is it the end of George's world? Hardly.

Faster than you can say "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," George bunks with his classmate Rennie Whitfield. Rennie just happens to be the richest kid in town -- a motorboat for his birthday, thoroughbred horses, a butler, really nice clothes. It's living the high life for George, and he's more than ready to have it all...but is he ready for what the Whitfields have in store for him? ... Read more

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A MIRACULOUS NEW WORK FROM STEPHEN ROOS
I don't know when I have enjoyed a novel more than my recent reading of Stephen Roos' brilliant new book RECYCLING GEORGE. Like Mr. Roos' previous book, THE GYPSIES NEVER CAME, he writes with a terse style and abundant wit that make the sensitive issue of a child's abandonment all the more keenly felt and understood.The character of George is so believably complex: plucky and unlucky, passive and angrily defiant, brave and scared all at the same time. George trying his hardest to make the best out of the terrifying moment when he returns to his trailer park home to discover that his family has abandoned him and taken the trailer with them.How young George comes to terms with this abandonment reminds one of the resilience and humor of the young hero of J.D. Salinger's Catcher In The Rye. Like Salinger, Roos understands a boy's heart and knows how to reveal this heart to us through humor and searing honesty. Roos' writing style only continues to grow in power and simplicity with each new undertaking he attempts-making him one of the truly great authors writing about and for adolescents today." ... Read more

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If we could understand the scientific and engineering principles behind recycling, our ability to use reprocessed materials would improve considerably. If we could then apply those principles, our efforts to process and recycle waste would be significantly more efficient and cost-effective. Practical Handbook of Processing and Recycling Municipal Waste provides all of the information necessary for vastly improving the way we recycle materials. It first develops basic engineering and scientific theories related to processing and recycling municipal waste. The authors then show how the behavioral characteristics of waste can actually be predicted with some degree of accuracy, hence turning waste disposal engineering from a matter of guesswork into a science. From Europe to the United States to the Far East, humankind understands the need for - and the challenges of - recycling and reusing waste. This handbook is the guide to successful, efficient waste processing and reuse. ... Read more

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Decent material, but not enough of it for the price
The first 90 pages of this book are the best.They include an overview of recycling and issues, then go into some detail how the various materials (metals, glass, papers, etc) are recycled and re-used.This section hasmany interesting collected factoids ("Today's average beverage bottlecontains 30% recycled glass"), but they are not organized orsynthesized into a coherent picture.

The remainder of this 330-page bookis padded with less-useful and boring reference material: recycling laws bystate, recycling associations by state, and a list of references (books,articles, journals and web sites).

Overall I think the price is steep forwhat is essentially a 90-page booklet.

A more worthy book on (paper)recycling can be found in "Recycled Papers: The Essential Guide"by Claudia Thompson. ... Read more

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This handy reference includes more than 350 website listings, indexed by subject heading and site name. Websites cover all aspects of recycling and waste management, including solid waste management, waste reduction, pollution prevention, market development, design for the environment, _buy recycled_ and re-use, and glass, metals, paper, and plastics. ... Read more

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This directory thoroughly describes all of the solid waste education programs and materials available from all 50 states. If you are interested in starting a solid waste recycling program or improving what you have-this directory is for you. All programs K-12 are included, in addition to information provided on the other environmental programs available. The solid waste directory gives you names, addresses, phone numbers, materials currently being used, how you can get them, how much they cost or if they are free. This book will be of great interest to city managers and planners. All cities, towns and counties will want this book! ... Read more

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This title is an updateable looseleaf and the definitive reference source for the scrap and recycling industry worldwide. It covers all the major recyclable materials, and each is treated in a consistent style. ... Read more

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"Waste, Recycling and Reuse" looks at the issues surrounding the waste problem and why it has grown over the past 50 years. It looks at issues from household rubbish to global warming and considers how we might reduce the waste we produce without lowering our standards of living. Opposing viewpoints are given throughout to provide opportunities for discussion and debate. ... Read more

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Recycling or the processing of used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products must become key parts of the equation for the Earth's continued sustainable development. At the present time, most developed countries are massively wasteful throughout almost all sectors of the economy ranging from energy use to consumer lifestyles. One of the main obstacles to conservation and recycling of resources is the lack in most countries of national mindsets encouraging such practices as well as the infrastructures to support their carrying out. This book presents important research in this frontal field. ... Read more

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This book covers the technology of the recovery of secondaryfibre for its use in paper and board manufacture. The editor, who hashadsubstantial practical experience of designing and commissioningpaperrecycling plants all over the world, leads a team of expertswhodiscuss subjects including sourcing, characterisation, mechanicalhandling and preparation and de-inking. ... Read more

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A compendium of work by one of the most exciting and accomplished young architects to emerge on the international scene in many years.

David Adjaye's practice combines material inventiveness, creative clients, and modest budgets to produce a refined and comprehensive body of work. Adjaye was born in Tanzania, and his wide-ranging education, both cultural and formal, has allowed him to respond deftly to wildly differing projects, from urban contexts to elegant pastoral retreats.

The innovation in Adjaye's career is exemplified in his residential works for a wide variety of clients and budgets. Perhaps his best known projects are the houses he has created in a range of settings for people such as artist Chris Ofili and actor Ewan MacGregor, some of which have never been published.

This book is Adjaye's first monograph, and it documents thirteen of his most important projects, presented through descriptions, detailed plans, and photographs. There is also a series of "portfolios," visual essays that highlight the tactile, luminous, and luxurious nature of Adjaye's work, and a reference section. 430 illustrations, 162 in color. ... Read more

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blossuming...
David Adjaye Houses: recycling, reconfiguring, rebuilding exhibits the overt of a blossuming architecture practice. The book is prefaced by "Negotiating Architecture" an original work written by post-colonial writer Stuart Hall as an integral presentation to this monograph of houses. The houses, nearly all in London, are mostly about their interiors, shown in a play of materials. The publishers, Thames & Hudson, took Adjaye's use of material a step further mimicking the look and feel of the facade of the Elektra house on the book's jacket. The dozen or so works in the book are punctuated by drawings and writings by Deyan Sudjic and Caroline Roux, as well as details that seek to capture the ethos of the relationship between space & form, information versus drama. ... Read more

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"Although recycling has a long history, it is only relatively recently that environmental protection and waste management issues have come to the forefront of both public and political awareness. Outside the fields of expertise, generally little is known about either plastics or their recyclability.

As in the successful first edition, this book provides straightforward information on plastic materials and technology, including the options for recycling plastics, with special focus on mechanical recycling. It touches on all the major problems associated with recovering and recycling plastics at a level intended to be accessible to any reader with an interest in this field, whatever their background. It also looks at some of the broader issues surrounding successful waste management of plastics.

This new edition reflects the great strides that have been made to increase recycling rates worldwide in recent years. It considers the expansion of infrastructure in the UK to support plastic recycling and major achievements that have been made in gaining widespread public support and participation for recycling schemes; specifically the need to manage waste on an individual household level. Current issues surrounding council recycling of plastic bottles, and the practice of providing free plastic carrier bags by supermarkets, are also considered.

Biopolymers are expected to have a major impact on plastic markets in the future and therefore some of the issues of biodegradability versus recycling are expanded in this second edition, as is the wider context of life cycle analysis and legislation.

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