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81Recycle
This hub is about getting people to recycle, describing what can be recycled, and environmental organizations that are doing interesting things. There are links to articles about recycling.
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87Freecycle.org - Give Stuff, Take Stuff, & It's All FREE
In the past year or so, for free, I’ve gotten: flower pots, glass balls used as floats in fishing nets, 2 Murano glass vases, old wicker furniture, and stacking milk crates. In the past year or so,...
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76THE MARINA BARRAGE
1. THE BARRAGE / MARINABRIDGE The barrage comprises nine steel crest gates, each 30m long, built across the 350m wide Marina Channel. Besides separating seawater from freshwater, it also acts as a tidal...
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66Landfill Safety - Reduce Traffic Hazards
A landfill can be a dangerous place. Throughout the working day large trash collection trucks, bulldozers, compactors, dump trucks, and personal vehicles are delivering, dumping, moving, covering, or...
88Global Warming, Health and Methane Gas
The adage, "What you don't know can't hurt you," anything but true when it comes to America's improperly abandoned landfills. Uncapped and unlined, such landfills spew out methane gas: a threat to human health...
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74BIOREACTOR LANDFILL TECHNOLOGY
Leachate Recirculation and Bioreactor landfills A bioreactor landfill is more than one that simply recirculates leachate. Subtitle D already allows the recirculation of leachate and condensate, but it does...
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69Solid Waste Bulletin
SLANTS & TRENDS THE TEAMSTERS CRIED FOUL when the nation’s second largest waste disposal firm fired 30 workers last month. The union accused Republic Services of enforcing union-busting tactics at a...
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66Strange Ideas For Going Green?
I've been thinking a lot about 'going green' lately. I've tried to live green for a very long time - it was 'cool' in the 70's then all of a sudden the idea seemed to drop out of site until recenlty and the...
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80Freeganism: What is a Freegan?
They forage in dumpsters for everything from electronics to food. They don't drive cars and the live in abandoned buildings. Are they moral leaders or just bums?
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80How To Furnish A Survival Cabin
Building a cabin on a shoestring budget is covered in that Hub...but what about the interior? A basic shell comes first, obviously, but few humans are going to be indefinitely content with living inside a...
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