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Protect the Earth: Recycle
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Being aware of and responsive to our physical and mental health helps us to build a strong community.
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Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade
by Adam Minter
Tracing the export of America's trash, a veteran journalist with access to and insight on the waste industry reveals the huge profits that China and other rising nations earn from our trash, causing the decline of our economy and the ascent of the developing world.
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Unscrewed : salvage and reuse motors, gears, switches, and more from your old electronics
by Edwin J. C. Sobey
"Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling old and broken electronics. Each of the more than 50 deconstruction projects includes a "treasures cache" of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions with photos on how to safely extract the working components. Projects include building a desk lamp from an old flatbed scanner, a barbeque supercharger from a Dustbuster impeller, and a robot from the gears, rollers, and stepper motor found in an ink-jet printer. Now, old VHS players and fax machines will find new life with these fun ideas"
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Details : how to design with architectural salvage and antiques
by Brian D. Coleman
A comprehensive guide to architectural salvage and antiques furnishes information on finishing touches for doors, a survey of vintage lighting, the magic of mantels, the secrets of sinks, stairs and staircases, and stained glass, as well as a discussion on how to incorporate a variety of styles into one's home.
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Junk style
by Melanie Molesworth
A room-by-room guide to creative decorating with items salvaged from thrift stores, auctions, attics, and flea markets includes ideas for reusing fabrics, containers, lamps, china, collectables, and displays for home decoration
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Let's recycle!
by Anne L. Mackenzie
"Simple text and photographs describe recycling, why it is important, and simple ways children can recycle"--Provided by publisher
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Recycling day
by Edward Miller
Bugs happily living in an empty lot are in trouble when a gang of rats moves in and takes over, but when a group of volunteers arrives to clean up, not only do the bugs get their lot back, they learn about recycling, composting, and garbage dumps. Includes facts about dumps, littering, and recycling
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Awesome Dawson
by Chris Gall
All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions, it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day. 35,000 first printing.
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Recycling projects for the evil genius
by Russel Gehrke
An engineer and inventor who has been featured on the Discovery Channel provides hands-on instructions inexpensive recycling projects using easy-to-find materials, including how to make a solar composter, weed and pest controls and environmentally friendly cleaners. Original.
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