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- Recycle
- Reduce - Reuse
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- Easier - Recycle
means to process old, used items in order that the
material can be used to make new products. Examples of
things that are often recycled are glass, plastic,
newspapers, aluminum cans, used motor oil, and
batteries. Here, reduce refers to lessening the amount
of items or resources that are consumed, using only
the amount that is needed, and looking for
alternatives that will lessen our use. And reuse means
extending the 'life' or repurposing an item rather
than discarding or throwing it away.
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- Harder - Recycling is
the processes of collecting, processing,
remanufacturing, and reusing materials instead of
discarding them. This helps conserve raw materials and
energy that manufacturers would otherwise use in
producing new products. Recycling also reduces the
amount of material going into landfills. Recycling
helps lessen the pollution that may result from waste
disposal. Reducing our consumption of materials and
reducing the waste of materials also adds to the
conservation of our resources.
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- Internet
Consumer Recycling Guide
- http://www.obviously.com/recycle/
- This recycling guide provides a starting point
for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the
net for recycling information. The goal is to help
make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends
into the flow of everyday life.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
from U.S. Environmental
- Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/catbook/index.htm
- 3) Eco-Speak: A Users Guide to the
Language of Recycling
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/blcons4.htm
- 4) Trash Matcher from Imagination
Factory
- http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/matchtmp.html
- 5) Waste Book (Online guide) http://www.recycle.mcmail.com/
- 6) Waste Facts from Project Integra
http://www.integra.org.uk/facts/main.html
- 7) World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling
Guide
- http://www.obviously.com/recycle/guides/shortest.html
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- Recycle
City from the Environmental Protection
Agency
- http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/
- Learn how recycling reduces waste and saves
money. Find out where all the garbage goes. Also
play the 'Dumptown Game.'
- Related Websites:
- 2) Ollie Recycles http://www.ollierecycles.com/
- 3) Roscoe's Recycle Room http://www.recycleroom.org/html/launch.html
- 4) Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle from the
Environmental Protection Agency
- http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/reduce.htm#recycle
- 5) Solid Waste and Recycling from King
County Kids Web
- http://www.metrokc.gov/dnr/kidsweb/solid_waste_main.htm
- 6) Quick Lesson in Recycling from Planet
Pals
- http://www.planetpals.com/EDrecyclethings/recycle_lesson.html
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- Virtual
Recycling from Manitoba Product
Stewardship Corporation
- http://www.virtualrecycling.com/
- This website provides recycling information and
resources for teachers and students.
- Related Websites:
- 2) EcoRecyle Victoria (Australia) http://www.ecorecycle.vic.gov.au/
- 3) Pennsylvania's Recycling Page from the
Department of Environmental Protection
- http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/Recycle.htm
- 4) Why Do We Recycle? from the City of
Phoenix, Arizona
- http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/GARBAGE/whyrecyc.html
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- Waste
Reduction Tips from Vermont Clean State
Initiative
- http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/wastediv/csc/Waste.htm
- Here you find tips for reducing waste at home,
at work, and everywhere else.
- Related Website:
- 2) Recycling Loop: Buying Recycled from
GreenWorks (Download the video)
- http://www.greenworks.tv/wastemanagement/recycling_loop.htm
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- Websites By Kids For Kids
- Recycle
the World (1998 ThinkQuest Junior
Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4054/index.html
- This web site teaches about recycling , how to
recycle, and lists good books and web sites about
recycling.
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- Re-use-Recycle
en España (1999 ThinkQuest Internet
Challenge)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/27913/
- This site concentrates on three objectives: how
to reuse, reduce, and recycle.
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- More Websites Related To Recycling
- America
Recycles Day
- http://www.americarecyclesday.org/
- This event day provides incentives to
communities, large and small, to promote recycling
in their community. Make the pledge to recycle, buy
recycled products, and send a HenryCycle eCard on
November 15.
- Not-To-Be-Missed Section:
- 2) Proven Success - Stories from Schools and
Community Groups
- http://www.cancentral.com/success.htm
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- Anti-Recycling
Myths by R.A. Denison and J.F. Ruston from
Environmental Defense
- http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=558&Page=1
- Using 'Recycling is Garbage' as a case study,
this paper examines the arguments made by the
anti-recyclers, correcting factual errors and
over-generalizations, offering additional data and
perspective, and acknowledging the few kernels of
truth in their arguments.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling
from Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- http://www.grn.com/library/5myths.htm
- 3) Is Recycling a Waste? by Mark Fearer
http://www.nexuspub.com/july97/recycle.htm
- 4) Recycling Is Garbage by J. Tierney http://www.nrdc.org/cities/recycling/recyc/appenda.asp
- 5) Talking Trash: Recycling is Under Attack by
A. Horrigan and J. Motavalli from
- Environmental Magazine http://www.emagazine.com/march-april_1997/0397feat1.html
- 6) Too Good To Throw Away from Natural
Resources Defense Council
- http://www.nrdc.org/cities/recycling/recyc/recyint.asp
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- Doing
More At Work: Recycling Guide for Business
from Greater Vancouver Regional
District
- http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/services/garbage/workplace/RGB/Recycling%20Guide%20For%20Business.html
- This guide (pdf) helps to take a closer look at
your recycling program, you can make it more
efficient and cost-effective.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Industrial Waste - Ideal Fertilizer? from
The Why Files http://whyfiles.org/063recycle/toxic.html
- 3) Recycling Programs in the Workplace
http://environment.about.com/library/weekly/blrcy1.htm
- 4) Reducing Waste in the Workplace http://www.moea.state.mn.us/campaign/workplace/
- 5) Smart Ideas on Recycling from The Why
Files http://whyfiles.org/063recycle/good_idea.html
- 6) Workplace Recycling from Green Nature
http://greennature.com/article.php?sid=11
- 7) Workplace Recycling Program http://www.carolina-regional.com/library/recycling.htm
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- Global Recycling
Network
- http://grn.com/
- This is a mega-site site dedicated to
recycling-related information.
- Not-To-Be-Missed Section:
- 2) Recycling Educational Resources (Links-page)
http://grn.com/library/educational.htm
- Other Global Recycling Websites:
- 3) European Recycling and the Environment
http://www.tecweb.com/recycle/eurorec.htm
- 4) Recycler's World http://www.recycle.net/recycle/index.html
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- Recycling
Position Paper by R. Grindel, C. Snover,
and K. Hopkins
- http://grn.com/library/position.htm
- This 1997 article provides a general overview
of recycling.
- Other Online Articles On Recycling:
- 2) Cultural Economies of Waste by G. Hawkins,
University of New South Wales
- http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/projects/cep/knowledges/hawkins.html
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- Reducing
Household Waste in Local Landfills by J.H.
Lloyd from North Carolina Cooperative Extension
Service
- http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/he379.html
- Learn about source reduction, one of many names
for the idea of making responsible decisions that
reduce the amount of household waste.
- Related Website:
- 2) Reusing Kitchen and Laundry Products - Home
Tips
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/blrcy8.htm
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- Rotten
Truth About Garbage from Association of
Science-Technology Centers Inc. & Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
- http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm
- This online exhibition takes an in-depth look
at the complex issues surrounding municipal solid
waste.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Recycling's Down in the Dumps by C.Welch
from The Seattle Times
- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134390788_recycle14m.html
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- Recycling Materials
- Automobile
Recycling Alternatives: Why Not?
- http://www.npcr.org/reports/npcr1057/npcr1057.html
- This report addresses the current status of the
automobile recycling industry, with a focus on the
environmental and economic implications of
developing technologies.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Automobile Recycling from Georgia Tech
Research Institute
- http://www.srl.gatech.edu/education/Recycle/Overview.html
- 3) Car Recycling from Waste Watch
http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/informtn/carrec.htm
- 4) Fiscal Incentive Aid Car Recycling from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1994/may04/36537.html
- 5) Myth of Automobile Battery Recycling by M.
Cobbing and S. Divecha from
- Greenpeace http://www.things.org/~jym/greenpeace/myth-of-battery-recycling.html
- 6) Steel--Driving Automobile Recycling
Success
- http://www.recycle-steel.org/cars/main.html
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- Battery
Recycling
- http://www.batteryrecycling.com/
- Demand for batteries in the U.S. is projected
to increase 5.8% every year through 2002. In 1998
there were over 3 billion industrial and household
batteries sold in the United States alone. This
demand for batteries will continue.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Battery Council International http://www.batterycouncil.org/recycling.html
- 3) Battery Recycling from Waste Watch
http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/informtn/batteries.htm
- 4) Recycle Your Rechargeable Batteries from
Rechargeable Battery Recycling
- Corporation http://www.rbrc.org/
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- Can
Central Recycling from Can Manufacturers
Institute
- http://www.cancentral.com/environ4.htm
- Cans are the most-often recycled packaging in
America. Here you learn about recycling of steel
and aluminum cans.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Aluminum Can & Foil Recycling from
Waste Watch
- http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/informtn/alumin.htm
- 3) Aluminum Can Recycling from Alupro
http://www.alupro.org.uk/
- 4) Aluminum Recycling from International
Aluminum Institute
- http://www.world-aluminium.org/environment/recycling/
- 5) Beverage Container Recycling: Reverse
Vending Machines
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa091000.htm
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- Composting
from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
- http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/compost.htm
- Composting is the controlled decomposition of
organic materials, such as leaves, grass, and food
scraps, by microorganisms. The result of this
decomposition process is compost, a crumbly,
earthy-smelling, soil-like material.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Backyard Composting from Earth
911
- http://www.earth911.org/master.asp?s=lib&a=organics/composting/joy/comp_backyard.inc
- 3) Compost Resource Page http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/
- 4) Composting from EcoRecycle http://www.ecorecycle.vic.gov.au/aboutus/infosheet_compost_a.asp
- 5) Composting and Earth Information Resources
On The Web from Global Recycling
- Network http://grn.com/library/compost.htm
- 6) Composting as Part of a Family Recycling
Program http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa121700.htm
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- How
Is Paper Recycled? from Paper
University
- http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/earth_answers/Recycle1.htm
- Learn all about paper recycling and the
environment.
- Related Websites on Paper
Recycling:
- 2) Marketing Used Paper from The Why
Files http://whyfiles.org/063recycle/paper2.html
- 3) Paper from Environmental Systems of
America
- http://envirosystemsinc.com/paper.html
- 4) Paper Please http://www.afandpa.org/kids_educators/paper.cfm
- 5) Paper Recycling from Georgia-Pacific
http://www.gp.com/EducationalinNature/topics/pr.html
- 6) Paper Recycling Trends in the United
States
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa022397.htm
- 7) Paper Recycling: Success With Corrugated
Boxes
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa021701a.htm
- 8) Paper Recycling's Realities at The Why
Files http://whyfiles.org/063recycle/paper.html
- 9) Recycled Paper: Plenty Available - Now Let's
Use It! by G. Gleason, S. Kinsella, & V.
- Mills http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/1059_Kinsellapaper%20reprint.pdf
- 10) Recycling from the Pulp & Paper
Information Centre
- http://www.ppic.org.uk/htdocs/info/recycle/recycle.htm
- 11) Shopping for Recycled Paper http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/paper.htm
- 12) Treecycle Recycled Paper: Issues and
Information http://treecycle.com/info.html
- 13) Why Recycle? from Paper
University
- http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/earth_answers/Whyrec1.htm
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- Paper
or Plastic from the Film and Bag
Federation
- http://www.plasticbag.com/environmental/pop.html
- Making a good choice for the environment is no
longer as simple as knowing whether or not a
product can be recycled. Recycling is just one of
three very important factors to consider. See how
plastic bags stack up in each of these areas:
reduce, reuse, and recycle.
- Related Websites:
- 2) How is Plastic Recycled? by V. Carrillo
http://crystal.biol.csufresno.edu:8080/projects97/92.html
- 3) Plastic from Environmental Systems of
America
- http://envirosystemsinc.com/plastic.html
- 4) Plastics and Recycling from Plastics New
Zealand Incorporated
- http://www.plastics.org.nz/environment/recycle.htm
- 5) Plastics Identification Guyide from
Spokane Solid Waste http://www.solidwaste.org/reccodes.htm
- 6) Plastics Recycling from EcoRecycle
http://www.ecorecycle.vic.gov.au/aboutus/infosheet_plastic.asp
- 7) Plastics Recycling: A Consumer's
Perspective
- http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa030898.htm
- 8) Plastics Resource from American Plastics
Council http://www.plasticsresource.com/
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- Recycling
from Glass Packaging Institute
- http://www.gpi.org/Recycling.html
- Ensuring a steady supply of recycled glass, or
cullet, has become crucial to the industry's
success because using recycled glass reduces energy
consumption, raw materials use, and wear and tear
on machinery.
- Related Websites:
- 2) British Glass http://www.recyclingglass.co.uk/
- 3) Glass Recycling http://www.aim-irl.com/greenguide/glass.htm
- 4) Glass Recycling from Newton's
Apple
- http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/GlssRecycl.html
- 5) Glass Recycling http://www.britglass.co.uk/recycling/
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- Used
Motor Oil Collection and Recycling from
American Petroleum Institute
- http://www.recycleoil.org/
- Motor oil doesn't wear out - it just gets
dirty.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse from
Pennzoil Company and U.S.
- Environmental Protection Agency
- http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/cars/oilreuse/oilreuse.htm
- 3) Don't Be a Dipstick! Recycle Used Oil
http://www.state.tn.us/environment/dca/oil.htm
- 4) Used Motor Oil Recycling from City of
Chicago
- http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Environment/SolidWaste/UsedMotorOil.html
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- Websites For Teachers
- All
Wrapped Up (Grades 4-6)
- http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/cornel13.htm
- Packaging accounts for 10-15% (and sometimes
more than 50%) of the cost of a product and
approximately 1/3 of what goes into a family's
trash can.
- Related Activity:
- 2) Packaging Project (Grades 7-12) http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/wisc2.htm
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- Aluminum
Beverage Cans: The ABCs Environmental
Education from Can Central
- http://www.cancentral.com/canc/nontext/toc.htm
- Here you find a guide for teachers that
includes lesson plans, activities, and almost
everything you will need for your unit on
recycling.
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- Composting:
A Great, Rotten Idea (Grades 7-9)
- http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/cornel25.htm
- When we mention "recycling," we often think of
recycling glass bottles, aluminum cans, and
newspaper. But another 30% of the household garbage
we throw out also can be recycled.
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- Eco-Marketing
Project from Landmarks for
Schools
- http://www.landmark-project.com/eco-market/
- Students working in teams of three or four,
will develop ideas and appropriate prices for
imaginative new products that they believe people
of their age would buy and that contain at least
50% recycled materials.
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- Mini-landfills
(Grades 4-6)
- http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/wisc1.htm
- The goal of this exercise is to look at several
typical household items, determine whether they are
made of renewable or nonrenewable resources and
observe what happens when they are placed in a
landfill.
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- Paper
Recycling (Grades 4-5) from
Georgia-Pacific
- http://www.gp.com/EducationalinNature/teachers/pr.html
- Here you find a guide for study topics and
discussion related to recycling paper.
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- Recycling
Lesson Plan
- http://whyfiles.org/004antarctic/teacher4/recycling.html
- This lesson contains lots of discussion and
activity ideas.
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- Plants
From Trash (Grades K-3)
- http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/cornel10.htm
- Nature is the best recycler. Some plants even
'recycle' themselves. New plants can grow from
plant seeds, and in some cases, from parts of
plants.
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- Used
Motor Oil Recycling from Department of
Environmental Protection, Pennsylvania
- http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/enved/Rec_Lessons/motor.htm
- Student will gain an awareness that used motor
oil is a resource to be recycled rather than
discarded. They will be able to identify locations
where used motor oil may be recycled.
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- Waste
Game Show
- http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/quiz/miss1.htm
- This exercise is two teams of one or more
players and is played similar to the game show
Jeopardy.
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