A packrat resists recycling, reducing, and reusing

What do you do with your old mobile phone? Where can you take your old medicines? Which plastic is recyclable? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you're at it. Did you know that: Around 60% of your rubbish can be recycled, but only 11% is recycled (half is sent to landfill); Landfill sites are running out; Recycling a one-metre stack of newspaper saves one tree; It costs million a year to clean up the litter on Britain's streets; A plastic vending cup can be made into a pencil or a pen; You can make money recycling your aluminium cans; 150 million plastic carrier bags are used in the UK each week - they last up to 500 years in landfill. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is packed with ideas for cutting your consumption, reducing your rubbish, reusing, and recycling. It will also tell you where your old plastic goes to, what happens to your old glass jars, how they handle waste in other countries. With a comprehensive resources section and information on getting more involved, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste.

People are proud to recycle, but in recent years many have become suspicious the process isn't operating as seamlessly as we'd like to think. Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine makes sense of the complex system for any reader who wants to learn how it works, what the problems are, and what they can do to help recycling thrive

We toss out paper, chemicals, garden waste, and plastic without thinking about where they goes and what that does to our environment. Our planet is becoming a giant dumping ground and now we are running out of space. Practising the three Rs ? Reduce, reuse, and recycle ?not only saves energy, our forests, and species but also helps people in need. Make a difference, help people around the world and also the environment!

"In Germany, working with existing structures has become the architects most important task, the objective being to recognize and redevelop the energy and potentials of such structures: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The approaches put forward here for dealing with them demonstrate what is possible in 'everyday' building endeavors. Architects respect existing buildings, examine them from a contemporary point of view, and develop architecture through their interventions. With numerous best-practice examples, this book offers an overview of innovative strategies for regenerating, reusing, renovating, and augmenting pre-existing structures. Interviews, statements, and international references generate a changing self-image'of architects who, when transforming existing buildings, no longer see themselves as creators but as developers" -- Publiarq: publicaciones arquitectura y arte.

"Introduces the reader to recycling"--

Read 'Energy' to discover where energy comes from, how we use it, and how energy waste affects the environment. Learn about renewable energy sources, how recycling can save energy, and how to reduce your own energy waste.