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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
6) Recycling
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publication Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Step-by-step instructions for crafts made from everyday items and information about reusing and recycling. Grab some old wrappers and containers and get to work. Create colorful beads from paper. Light up your room with a tin can lamp. Weave a candy wrapper book cover. Learn how to make all of these projects and more when you reuse what you already have. Who knew you could do so much with old cans, wrappers, and bottles?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the worlds population, we use up to 30 percent of the worlds resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster.
12) American wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it)
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed technology projects, including devising a sundial from recycled cardboard, refreshing old earbuds with string, and making a cell phone charging cradle from a recycled container.
Publisher
Filmideas
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"As the world's garbage piles grow to even greater heights, many people and industries are finding new uses for old things. In Manila, the Philippines, local women are running a thriving business repurposing old papers into fashionable accessories creating a worldwide demand. In the U.S., recycling E-Waste is big business as producers and consumers consider important ways to reduce their toxic impact on the environment. It begs the question: So, what...
Author
Publisher
Creative Pub. International
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From plywood to hardwood flooring, to windows, doors, carpeting and more, salvaging building materials can save homeowners thousands of dollars. This book is a hands-on, do-it-yourselfer's guide that shows how to identify materials that can be salvaged efficiently and then gives step-by-step instructions on how to go about doing it"--
17) Recycle rex
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Explains the ideas of recycling, reducing, and reusing through a group of dinosaurs who learn these concepts when the field where they play is in jeopardy of being turned into a landfill.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Festival
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Berenstain Bears live in a wonderful place filled with green grass, blue skies, and lots of furry friends. But on a fishing trip at the creek, the Bear family discovers that the town dump is overflowing. It's spilling garbage into the water! Can the Berenstain Bears find a pollution solution before their beloved country is filled with garbage?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Roxy Abruzzo mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In their first book, the Junk Gypsies--sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show--combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with an addiction to flea markets, wanderlust, and Americana...
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