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Sustainability Needs Balanced Thinking in Everyday Life
Routine Calculations If recycling your glass bottle could save a quarter-pound of CO2, and if your car spews a pound of carbon per mile, how many bottles could you cart how far in order to capture the...
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Recycling Center: Surprising Takeaway
A Learning Experience What would you expect to learn from a field trip to one of our country’s top recycling centers? Probably how efficiently everything is sorted and how everything is being recycled...
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What Do Those Plastic Recycle Numbers Mean?
Plastic Recycling Numbers Plastics come in all sorts of shapes and sizes…and kinds. And it’s the kinds of plastics that cause some confusion about how to recycle them. The numbers on the bottom of...
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Book Picks for the Recycler
We’ve got too much stuff and not enough room — in our homes, in our neighborhoods, on our planet. Some of us get it – realizing that recycling our stuff needs be an integral part of our lives in order...
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Too Much Plastic
By Dr. Andrew Weil The stuff is everywhere, in the oceans, garbage dumps, landfills. Patches of oceanic garbage, some as large as the state of Texas, hold a huge volume of non-biodegradable synthetics....
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The Recycle Cycle – Video
If you have ever wondered where your recycles go, and how all the stuff gets processed, watch this series of animated videos that tell it all. Chapter 1: The Cycle Chapter 2: The MRF Chapter 3: Paper...
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The Atlantic Ocean Garbage Patch – Video
How much trash is in our oceans? And does it look more like a floating landfill or a plastic soup? Anna Cummins, co-founder of the 5 Gyres Project, gives Jorge Ribas the facts about her recent trip...
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Weird and Wonderful Ways of Recycling
Scrap House was located on Civic Center Plaza, at the corner of Grove and Polk Streets, immediately in front of San Francisco City Hall. Image courtesy Cesar Rubio Photography. Some recycled goods or...
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365 Recycle Days per Year
re·cy·cle: Origin: 1925–30 verb to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse. to alter or adapt for new use without changing the essential form or nature thereof. to...
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Recycled Houses Take Recycling to a Higher Level
Janet Perka on the steps of her thrice-moved home outside Port Townsend, WA. Photo Susan Colby Recycling’s Full Potential Clear glass goes in one container, colored another. Papers in this one and...
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