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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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Tache with Trash: an image of integrating art with upcycling in the city of the future
Art is rarely imagined as a strategic approach in the design of the future city. The purpose here is to offer a perspective on future cities that resides at the intersection of art and the practice of upcycling. I dub this perspective ‘Tache with Trash’, offering an artistic design for busy locales based on transforming recyclable waste into a vibrant spectrum of colours. Applicable in places like shopping malls, campuses and convention centres, I envision individuals disposing of trash in a shredding machine that injects those fragments into transparent containers, such as glass ornaments and glass wall panels. Disposing of recyclable trash becomes like dabbing a tache (stain, spot, blob) of pigment on an artwork. Rooted in the theoretical framework of ‘envisioning the future’, this perspective is inspired by the ‘junk art’ genre and aims to integrate communal art with sustainable upcycling. The benefits of the perspective include enhancing social interaction on sustainability, serving as a tool for younger generations’ sustainability education, providing a platform for local artists and assisting crowded centres with economization.
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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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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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Milk and juice : a recycling romance
\"Once upon a time, in a refrigerator not too far away, a jug of milk and a bottle of juice fell in love. All was bliss until Juice was taken away from its one true love and...recycled. Thus begins Milk and Juice's humorous journey through many incarnations around the world. Will they ever be reunited? Or will they stay star-crossed lovers for all eternity?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction: Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift: Disruption
This special issue is dedicated to Namwali Serpell's novel The Old Drift (2019), and the introduction makes a case for reading the book as a disruptive novel. While the degree of its disruptiveness is a moot point, the novel displays a formal innovativeness that stems not from doing something entirely new but from recycling old art forms and mixing genres, re-asking old (un)answered questions, embracing open-endedness and engaging with the contradictory. In its handling of multiple narrative voices, the novel opens up, among other issues, possibilities for countering historical origins, unnarrating the nation and disbelonging to it. I first present the triadic logic underlying The Old Drift's formal and thematic choices in eight fragments that sometimes include close readings. I reserve the discussion of the implications of my argument on scholarly debates and African letters for last, choosing to first engage in a critical appraisal of the text. I also articulate my motivation for putting together this special issue under the rubric of disruption and trace the links in the articles contained herein.
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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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Persistent Narratives: Intellectual Disability in Canadian Children’s Literature
Canadian children’s literature rarely depicts characters labelled with intellectual disabilities, yet when it does it often remains mired in stereotypes that recycle prevalent myths and misconceptions. Even as more recent literature attempts to push back against such stereotypes, it nevertheless predominantly remains caught in these dangerous representational repertoires. This article offers a brief history of Canadian literary depictions of intellectual disability and a critique of the Canadian publishing spheres. Through a critical analysis of Lorna Schultz Nicholson’s book Fragile Bones, we discuss the limits of representation of intellectual disability in children’s fiction. We also offer a critique of the ableist publishing climate in Canada and suggest that structural barriers prevent disabled writers from entering the literary marketplace on an equal playing field. These barriers to publishing lead to the vast underrepresentation of disabled authors and the misrepresentation of disability in general and intellectual disability in particular in Canadian children’s literature.
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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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A Circular Space Economy Is Not Science Fiction
If humanity hopes to continue operating safely in space, it is imperative to bring the ethos of \"reduce, reuse. recycle\" into orbit, according to a new Perspective article in the journal Chem Circularity. As humanity becomes increasingly dependent upon satellites for everything from navigation to scientific sensing to defense, the increasing clutter of space debris in orbit is a threat, according to Jin Xuan. associate dean of research and innovation for the faculty of engineering and physical science at the University of Surrey. The space industry launches valuable materials -- such as rare earth elements -- into space with no expectation of reuse. \"Without a shift toward reuse and recovery, we face a future where space becomes crowded. polluted, and inaccessible.\" says Xuan, the senior author of the article. \"Sustainability is no longer optional.\"
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