Primary Materials...
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Composting
Composting is perhaps the most perfect example of recycling because it is an entirely natural process which results in the creation of soil. It works by the dec...
Recycling Books
The joy of a book is its timeless shareable quality. Owning a book is a pleasure, and lending or borrowing a book is also a great pleasure, whether from a friend or from...
Recycling Cans
So much of the food and household products we use on a daily basis come in cans – baked beans, tuna fish, pet food, paint... all available to us to an easy to carry,...
Recycling Cardboard
Our lives are full of cardboard – it comes as packaging for nearly everything we buy.
From food to consumer goods cardboard is clearly here to stay. But the good news...
Recycling Glass
We all know the glass bottles that we buy our drinks in and the glasses we drink from, but what exactly is this miracle object, what is its history, and how is it made?...
Recycling Paper
Where would we be without paper? Our bureaucratic academic and literary worlds, to give just a few examples, runs on mountains of paper, and despite the...
Recycling Plastic
At first glance plastic is a wonderful invention. It can be made in any size, any shape and any colour we want, and is perfect for storing any number of materials and...
Ways to Recycle Wood
Wood is one of our most familiar materials; it’s hard to imagine how we’d manage without it. It has been estimated that, worldwide, around 1.6 billion cubic metres...
