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2009 Brazilian Grand Prix

They were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and were constructed of recycled plastic bottle tops, collected on site over the course of the grand prix weekend, and remoulded at the site's plastic recycling plant.

All the Amendments

It features the single "The Recycling Bin Song," which received airplay on Triple J after both announcer Caroline Tran and music director Richard Kingsmill took a liking to it.

Bacterial small RNA

The 6S RNA binds to RNA polymerase and regulates transcription, tmRNA has functions in protein synthesis, including the recycling of stalled ribosomes, 4.5S RNA regulates signal recognition particle (SRP), which is required for the secretion of proteins and RNase P is involved in maturing tRNAs.

Californians Against Waste

Californians Against Waste is an American environmental advocacy organization that takes action on local, state and national levels to conserve natural resources and prevent pollution through the expansion of a recycling economy.

Carbonatation

Dorr (also Dorr-Oliver) - a continuous process using two tanks with recycling ("1st carbonatation") to build up particle size for natural flocculation.

Consumer Electronics Association

CEA supported SB 329, a television recycling law signed into law by Governor Rick Perry in June 2011, as it was consistent with the eCycling Leadership Initiative.

Conventional wastewater treatment

Waste management – re-use, recycling and disposal of solid waste from manufacturing, commerce and domestic sources.

Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell

The movie's theme tune is a recycling of James Horner's theme for Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars, which has been re-used by Corman himself for several of his films, including Space Raiders and Sorceress.

Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment

The school's clubs include the National Beta Club (Junior Beta), Technology Club, and Girl Scouts of the USA (Brownies, Daises and Juniors,), Robotics, Recycling Club, STEAM Team, Broadcasting, Yearbook, Little Miss Sunshine, Young Generals, Performing Arts, Legos, and Boy Scouts of America 1833 (Boy Scouts and cub scouts tiger cub and junior cub).

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

Freecycle

The Freecycle Network, an Internet-based international community recycling project of re-use/sharing usable goods.

Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal

The Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal of North America or GCNA is a water management proposal designed by Newfoundland engineer Thomas Kierans to alleviate North American freshwater shortage problems.

Heather Steans

Co-sponsoring SB 3346 with State Representative Karen May, Steans passed a bill reducing mercury in the ambient environment by improving the material’s collection and recycling from thermostat units.

Henrik Lund-Nielsen

Based on a world record of 80% recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark, he grew the company from an initially marginal Danish presence to the world leader in recycling of gypsum plasterboard (drywall) waste with several European subsidiaries and business in the US and Asia.

HM Prison Full Sutton

Employment and training is also available in various prison workshops including bricklaying, painting and decorating, plumbing, recycling, textiles, contract services, Braille transcription, catering and industrial cleaning.

Household Waste Recycling Act 2003

The Household Waste Recycling Act 2003 (c 29) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Joseph Coors

With his brother, William Coors, Joseph refined the cold-filtered beer manufacturing system and began America's first large-scale recycling program by offering 1-cent returns on Coors aluminum cans.

Keep America Beautiful

Elizabeth Royte author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a "masterful example of corporate greenwash," writing that in contrast to its anti-litter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.

Lake Macatawa

The eastern end of the lake is marked by industrial development within the City of Holland, and includes a coal-fired power plant, scrap metal recycling facility, pharmaceutical production plant, aggregate mineral loading dock, and a pickle production facility owned by the H.J. Heinz company.

Massaccesi

He is a multimedia artist, utilizing performance, installation, physical art pieces, experimental sound compositions electronic music, video & more, generally using the themes of recycling/re-usage and unique concepts (the sound of trash in refugee camps, building a city out of a city's recycling, performances based on the southern Asian sport of Buzkashi, sleeping, worshiping trash).

MBA Polymers

In 2004 MBA Polymers created a joint venture with Guangzhou Iron and Steel Enterprises Holdings Ltd to establish its sustainable recycling operations in China.

MC Metals

MC Metals was a metal recycling company based in the Springburn area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Microbial biodegradation

Aspergillus and other moulds play an important role in these consortia because they are adept at recycling starches, hemicelluloses, celluloses, pectins and other sugar polymers.

PaintCare

Paintcare will complement Metro's current MetroPaint recycling program, which has made Oregon a leader in reducing and reusing paint waste.

Paul Pelosi, Jr.

During his tenure, San Francisco implemented energy efficiency programs that resulted in a reduction of 28 megawatts of electricity, created programs that increased residential and commercial recycling from 46% to 70%, as well reduced San Francisco's carbon emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, and became the first municipality to implement a ban on plastic bags.

Pinhoe

The much delayed new household waste recycling centre off Exhibition Way (near Aldi) was opened by Devon County Council on 21 June 2011.

Planet Ark

Planet Ark is best known for its high profile recycling campaigns including 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' and Australia's 'National Recycling Week' and the country's biggest annual community tree-planting event, 'National Tree Day', founded by Olivia Newton-John with the organisation.

Raglan, New Zealand

Actor Antonio Te Maioha, who lives in Raglan, has publicly spoken about his own involvement and Raglan's leadership in recycling.

Raj Goyle

When he was 15, Goyle was an organizer in a community-wide recycling program that removed hundreds of pounds of garbage from the county landfill and led to a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.

Recycling symbol

It was won by Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, whose entry was the image now known as the universal recycling symbol.

Ribosome Recycling Factor

The ribosome recycling factor was discovered in the early 1970s by the work of Akira Kaji and Akikazu Hiroshima at the University of Pennsylvania.

SA Waste Holdings

On 12 May 2005, Gauteng environment minister Khabisi Mosunkutu paid a surprise visit to their recycling plant in Marlboro, near Alexandra (North of Johannesburg).

Shipbreaker

Ship breaking, a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for scrap recycling.

Teva Learning Center

In June 2009, students from the Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley in New Jersey were presented with the "Kids for Clean Communities Award" for the recycling program they developed at their school after attending the Teva program.

Textile recycling

For consumers the most common way of recycling textiles is reuse through reselling or donating to charity (Goodwill Industries, Salvation Army, etc.) However certain communities in the United States have been accepting textiles in curbside pickup since 1990.

The Holcad

A few weeks later, as March 3 was the Friday before a break, a member of the Sierra Student Coalition found more than 200 copies in a newspaper recycling bin in the McKelvey Campus Center.

The Leo Group

The Leo Group is a privately owned, waste-recycling company based in Halifax, England that specialises in the collection and processing of animal by-products.

Tom Casten

He served until 2006 as founding chair and CEO of Primary Energy and its subsidiary Primary Energy Recycling Corp., which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Transition state theory

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) is an enzyme involved in the catabolism and recycling of nucleosides and is a target for the development of novel therapeutic agents for T-cell apoptosis in leukemia and in autoimmune diseases.

Transpacific Industries Group

The company's Solid Waste and Recycling services include: general waste and recycling, bins, skips and compactors, all types of commercial waste, medical waste, organic waste, construction and demolition waste, as well as post collection facilities including material recovery facilities, landfills and transfer stations.

Tycus

The film relied heavily on stock footage, recycling shots from Dante's Peak, Asteroid, and Air America amongst several films.

United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), including recycling, Federal facilities and interstate waste

Uriah Heep

In the episode The Old Man and the Lisa from Season 8 of the Fox television series The Simpsons, Principal Skinner and the Junior Achievers recycle newspapers at Uriah's Heap Recycling Center.

Workers Beer Company

In Ireland, WBC has run has bars at Slane, Longitude, Phoenix Park, and in recent times provided Information Stewards at Oxegen as well as cup recycling.

Xtreme Waste

Actor and Raglan resident Antonio Te Maioha has publicly spoken about Xtreme Waste's accomplishments and his own involvement in Raglan's recycling program.


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