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Bag in the wind
One cold, spring morning, an ordinary grocery bag begins blowing around a landfill, then as it travels down a road, through a stream, and into a town, it is used in various ways by different people, many of whom do not even notice it.
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Stuff!: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (review)
Bush reviews Stuff!: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle by Steven Kroll and illustrated by Steve Cox.
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The bicycle fence
L.T. longs for a brand new bike but when his father builds him one from recycled junkyard parts, L.T. is embarrassed to ride it to school. Can he come up with a creative idea that not only gives him a good-as-new bike, but also provides a new fence for his yard and helps save the planet in the process?
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Chemical Composition, In Vitro Digestibility and Rumen Fermentation Kinetics of Agro-Industrial By-Products
The nutritive value of 26 agro-industrial by-products was assessed from their chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and rumen fermentation kinetics. By-products from sugar beet, grape, olive tree, almond, broccoli, lettuce, asparagus, green bean, artichoke, peas, broad beans, tomato, pepper, apple pomace and citrus were evaluated. Chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and fermentation kinetics varied largely across the by-products. Data were subjected to multivariate and principal component analyses (PCA). According to a multivariate cluster analysis chart, samples formed four distinctive groups (A-D). Less degradable by-products were olive tree leaves, pepper skins and grape seeds (group A); whereas the more degradable ones were sugar beet, orange, lemon and clementine pulps (group D). In the PCA plot, component 1 segregated samples of groups A and B from those of groups C and D. Considering the large variability among by-products, most of them can be regarded as potential ingredients in ruminant rations. Depending on the characteristic nutritive value of each by-product, these feedstuffs can provide alternative sources of energy (e.g., citrus pulps), protein (e.g., asparagus rinds), soluble fibre (e.g., sugar beet pulp) or less digestible roughage (e.g., grape seeds or pepper skin).
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Forky in Craft Buddy Day
Forky must teach new toys made from recycled materials about how to be a toy.
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The angel in the dump: 'liquid' modern waste in Don DeLillo's The Angel Esmeralda
His is a writing that does not reject, delete, eliminate but one that absorbs, recycles, accommodates, says Peter Boxall of Don DeLillo. Here we face fiction that attempts to portray con...temporary America in its mostly postmodern entirety. Whether DeLillo should be regarded as a modern or a postmodern writer has always been a moot question. What is clear, however, is that his works are speculations on America's postmodern condition, multifaceted and multifarious. Underworld is an encyclopedic novel offering an amalgamation of American lives, contemporary and confused, stories on what it means to be alive in America through the latter part of the twentieth century. It extensively addresses the theme of waste, considered literally and metaphorically. Consider, for example, DeLillo's comment on the choice of the title: I first hit upon Underworld when I started thinking about plutonium waste buried deep in the earth (qtd. in Bing).
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Ship breaker
In a future 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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The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White
This paper examines the relationship between material waste, late capitalism, and the language and structure of Donald Barthelme’s fiction, with particular attention to Snow White (1967). Going against established modes of allegorizing the theme of waste in Barthelme’s work, I suggest the fruitfulness of a literal reading, and propose that his waste objects are framed as inevitable outcomes of a successful advertising campaign. They are the physical evidence or counterpart to the lexicons of marketing and advertising that so preoccupied the author. Such a reading is particularly apt given that Barthelme’s early fiction coincided with the birth of the environmental movement, and builds on recent scholarship in the fields of New Materialism and waste studies. By examining Barthelme’s depictions of waste through the dual lens of New Materialism and waste studies, and in relation to the work of his contemporaries as well as the literary experimentations of earlier avant-gardists, the paper establishes the different ways in which Barthelme articulates value.
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Curious George plants a tree
The mischievous monkey learns about protecting the environment by planting trees and recycling paper. Includes tips on conserving energy and resources.
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Literary Narrative and Information Culture: Garbage, Waste, and Residue in the Work of E. L. Doctorow
Taking W.B. Yeats's cue that \"refuse\" and \"rags\" comprise the recycled raw materials of \"masterful images,\" this essay takes a close look at the trope of trash in E.L. Doctorow's fiction. Doctorow assembles images into complex narratives that yield a Yeatsian sheen, however tarnished, of mastery and brilliance. Yeats and Doctorow are similarly concerned about the modes of consumption that have come to constitute the economic system of the Western industrial complex, be it the modern Anglo-European world or 20th century America.
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