(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Modern waste-management systems are integrating a variety of recycling processes. Transforming waste into energy and waste into new products is at the forefront of new technologies. For example, light is used to separate glass from minerals, while magnets and whirlstreams separate metals from non-metals. Inside the eponymous rotting boxes', organic waste is recycled by organic materialeating micro-organisms into re-usable products. Understanding the...
2) The upcycle
Author
Publisher
North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, disaster can befall the whole system. To keep a balance in our global ecosystem, we need to use resources efficiently, equitably, and sustainably. In both nature and economics, we observe that when a healthy distribution of resources is achieved, systems can not only function but flourish.
The United States recycles roughly 34% of its waste and has been stuck at this level...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What is the cost of convenience? Follow the life cycle of a paper cup and the environmental repercussions of a society reliant on convenience. This film is full of information that all consumers should know about the products that we use everyday, and the steps we need to make towards a more sustainable world.
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Making is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone who is inspired to recycle old clothes and textiles into unique, decorative, useful projects. Our forbears improvised tools to recycle their worn clothes - mostly dark suiting or mill waste if they lived near a mill. Usually they made mats for their cold floors or as draft excluders across doors. Nowadays you can choose from...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents project ideas and instructions to transform everyday things into whimsical objects, explaining how to transform leather belts into a doormat, CD jewel cases into photo frames, potato chip bags into a "silver leafed" mirror, and more, and providing tips and advice on tools and materials.
13) Recycling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind recycling. Includes infographics, activity, glossary, and index--
17) Emeraldalicious
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
18) Cartoneros
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash. Filmmaker: Ernesto Livon-Grosman.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the problem of world hunger along the length of the food chain, arguing that consumers in North America and Europe discard half their food while crops in developing countries rot because there is no way to process and/or get them to market, and offering a plan of rectify the problem by reducing, redistributing, and recycling.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request