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Think Green: Think Waste Management

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Find out how waste can be recycled and what you can do to aid recycling efforts in your community. With complete overviews of the types of materials that can be recycled: e-waste, paper and cardboard, metals, glass, plastics, electronics, batteries, light bulbs, polystyrene, and plastic grocery bags.

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Concepts

landfills, recyclables, recycling, waste management

Additional Tags

e-waste, environmental activism, environmental awareness, environmental solutions, recyclable materials, reduce waste, renewable energy, land reuse

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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