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Recycling 2: Recycled Products 1 #33

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CH 63 (WBEC)

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SUPERWOOD - A company has combined sawdust with post industrial waste and made wood. ECO COFFINS - Made entirely out of recycled materials, it's offered as a safe alternative to conventional coffins. WOOD ENERGY, ELECTRONIC WASTE SCULPTURE - We take a look at recycling prunings into wood chips. CHOPSTICKS - China's Ginghaua University designed and replaced throw-away chopsticks with recyclable spoons. FRIDGE RECYCLING PLANT - A UK firm started a reprocessing facility to disassemble old refrigerators safely and recycle them into reusable blocks or briquette. KENYA CHARCOAL - In Kaskeyu, women living there have been recycling natural minerals that they would normally throw away into briquettes for burning. TURNING WASTE INTO SOMETHING POSITIVE - British Cardiff University-based researchers conduct experiments into generating compost from municipal waste. FROM PAPER TO PEAT - University of Warwick has discovered a by-product of paper (fibers) that normally would go to the dump is being recycled into plant compost.

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Calendar Think Green: Recycling 2: Recycled Products 1 (CH 63 (WBEC)) SUPERWOOD - A company has combined sawdust with post industrial waste and made wood. ECO COFFINS - Made entirely out of recycled materials, it's offered as a safe alternative to conventional coffins. WOOD ENERGY, ELECTRONIC WASTE SCULPTURE - We take a look at recycling prunings into wood chips. CHOPSTICKS - China's Ginghaua University designed and replaced throw-away chopsticks with recyclable spoons. FRIDGE RECYCLING PLANT - A UK firm started a reprocessing facility to disassemble old refrigerators safely and recycle them into reusable blocks or briquette. KENYA CHARCOAL - In Kaskeyu, women living there have been recycling natural minerals that they would normally throw away into briquettes for burning. TURNING WASTE INTO SOMETHING POSITIVE - British Cardiff University-based researchers conduct experiments into generating compost from municipal waste. FROM PAPER TO PEAT - University of Warwick has discovered a by-product of paper (fibers) that normally would go to the dump is being recycled into plant compost. http://pw.myersinfosys.com/becon/airlist/1212/detail.ics