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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Fly Guy and Buzz visit a landfill to discover where their garbage goes. They learn all about garbage trucks, trash sorting, bacteria, and how landfills can be more environmentally friendly. They also visit a recycling plant to learn about how recycling programs get started, the recycling cycle, and what happens when trash isn't properly disposed of"--
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
3) Ship Breaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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.
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.
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Many businesses have been able to significantly improve their bottom line through concerted efforts to identify and reduce the generation of waste of all types. Other benefits of pollution prevention waste reduction include improved environmental compliance, reduced regulatory burden, reduced hazardous waste liabilities, improved worker health and safety, and improved public image.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
According to BioCycle magazine, Colorado's diversion rate languishes at a low 12.5%. This puts Colorado in the lowest 20% of states in terms of recycling rate, in the company of states like West Virginia, South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama, and others. States around the country that are finding recycling rates stagnating are looking at options for next steps in energizing diversion progress. This project is designed to explore the State of Colorado's...