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1) Ship Breaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Pinkalicious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
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Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As best friends Mole and Mouse try to solve the problem of Mole's moth-eaten clothes, they also find new uses for old things.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Peek into this diary of an aluminum can as it goes on a journey from the manufacturing line to the store shelf to a little girl's home to a garbage can and finally to a recycling plant, where it emerges into its new life...as a baseball bat!"--Cover back.
Pub. Date
[1978].
Description
A series of field reports by the Planning and Research Division of the Colorado Department of Highways, beginning in May 1978 and ending in October 1978 on two different projects on recycling hot mix bituminous pavement. One project reported on was on I-80 west of Laramie, Wyoming. The second set of reports are on a recycling project outside of Buena Vista, Colorado. Includes discussion on methods and equipment used and the results of the various...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The University of Colorado Recycling Services (CU Recycling), was contracted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's (CDPHE) Pollution Prevention Assistance Committee (PPAC) to develop and implement a system to collect, manage, and share baseline data on sources of reused, recycled, and composted materials and potential users of these materials within the Colorado.
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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The Advanced Technology Grant (ATG) Program is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pinch is a pack rat who does not want to give up the prossessions that are cluttering his house, but when he finally is persauaded to sell them at a neiighborhood tag sale, he discivers the beauty of recycling. Includes tips on reducing, resuing, and recycling. .
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
This is intended as general guidance for businesses that generate smaller quantities of certain wastes that may not have ready access to appropriate disposal programs. It is also intended to encourage local governments and regional county cooperatives to develop household collection programs for one or more of these wastes, or a combined collection program for business and household wastes.