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Pub. Date
2022
Description
"Wondering what you can do to get more use out of your plastic bottles? This title walks readers through nine plastic bottle crafts to keep the plastic out of landfills! Step-by-step instructions and color photos make it easy to create storage containers, planters, games, instruments, and more. Introductions to each craft provide background information, and tips help readers get the most out of their materials and crafting skills"--Provided by the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Once empty, clean, and without a label, most glass bottles and jars are pretty on their own. With a few extra touches such as paint or ribbon, glass items that are commonly recycled can be truly beautiful! Clear, simple instructions guide readers through several crafting projects that use old glass items in a new way. Each craft encourages readers to individualize their project, adding color and detail they choose and like. Additionally, this book...
84) Recycling is fun
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Simple rhyming text follows children as they recycle bottles and cans and donate old clothes to charity.
87) Recycling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Everything has a life cycle, even the objects we use every day! Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and glass jars can all be recycled again and again. Follow the journeys of these objects to a recycling center and see how they find new lives. Recycling is part of Decodables by Jump!, a comprehensive library of decodable leveled readers that follow a sequenced approach to phonics instruction. Young readers will enjoy colorful, photo-packed nonfiction...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Contains activities that encourage readers to read for comprehension, use information gained from the text and illustrations to follow step-by-step directions, determine relationships among steps in a technical process, and build the skills they need to make crafts using recyclable materials.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, barns, water tanks, and boardwalks has become a valuable commodity, treasured for the patina that gives witness to its history. Our ancestors built well, using locally sourced lumber that expressed the culture and natural history of their region: oak and pine in the Northeast; hickory and cypress in the South; Douglas fir and redwood in the West. Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide is the first complete visual...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From environmental activist Rob Greenfield comes an energetic (and sometimes extreme!) guide to creating a sustainable world. In Be the Change, Greenfield guides young readers through some of the trickiest topics of our time: food and water waste, our dependency on fossil fuels, and our love of money and stuff. What our planet needs, he argues, is for us to embrace sustainable living. Be the Change is Greenfield's guide to doing just that. He describes...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 16
Description
The garbage collectors in Britain are still called dustmen, and Lochdubh's dustman is an abusive drunk named Fergus Macleod. When Fergus is put in charge of a recycling center and dubbed the "environment officer." Constable Hamish Macbeth smells trouble piling up. Sure enough, Fergus becomes a bullying tyrant with his new power, issuing unwarranted fines and blackmailing residents. And when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one's sorry,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"All the stuff that surrounds us has a life cycle: materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways to reduce, reuse or recycle waste along the way. Children will gain new insight into the routine...
94) Recycling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind recycling. Includes infographics, activity, glossary, and index--
95) Reducing waste
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Where does all the garbage go and why is it important to cut back on waste? Discover why waste is creating problems for Earth and how you can help reduce, reuse, and recycle now. Includes step-by-step ideas for taking action, different points of view, an up-close look at relevant careers, and more.
Author
Series
Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
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.
98) Recycled!
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Miss Drew's efforts to teach her class about recycling are very successful.
Description
Create extraordinary handmade gifts and decorative accents by recycling everyday household items such as detergent boxes, wallpaper scraps, chipped dishes, and more. TRASH TO TREASURE is jam-packed with 125 economical, earth-friendly projects--each accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and radiant full-color photographs. Use your creativity to turn everyday "trash" into delightful "treasures".
100) Shred it!
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Lift flaps, pull tabs, and move levers to shred tires into tiny pieces!"--Back cover.
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