Kiowa County Public Library District

Recycling is an easy way to help protect the planet. Young readers learn the basics of recycling, including what materials are most commonly recycled and how the process of recycling works. This valuable information is presented through age-appropriate text, including eye-catching fact boxes.

This is intended as general guidance for businesses that generate smaller quantities of certain wastes that may not have ready access to appropriate disposal programs. It is also intended to encourage local governments and regional county cooperatives to develop household collection programs for one or more of these wastes, or a combined collection program for business and household wastes.

"The book that answers the age-old question: Can I Recycle This? Since the dawn of the recycling system, men and women the world over have stood by their bins, holding an everyday object, wondering, "can I recycle this?" This simple question reaches into our concern for the environment, the care we take to keep our homes and our communities clean, and how we interact with our local government. Recycling rules seem to differ in every municipality,...

According to BioCycle magazine, Colorado's diversion rate languishes at a low 12.5%. This puts Colorado in the lowest 20% of states in terms of recycling rate, in the company of states like West Virginia, South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama, and others. States around the country that are finding recycling rates stagnating are looking at options for next steps in energizing diversion progress. This project is designed to explore the State of Colorado's...

Electronic equipment like computer monitors, central processing units (CPUs), keyboards, mice, scanners, and cell phones contain a number of hazardous constituents such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and silver. Many of these constituents are found on the circuit boards or in the glass. Computers also contain a battery such as nickel-cadmium, lithium or sealed lead acid. These constituents are not a concern while the equipment is in...

The Advanced Technology Grant (ATG) Program is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado...

"Recycle. Reduce. Reuse." This familiar phrase is a reminder of our responsibiity in creating a substainable world. This title provides readers with an in-depth look at the importance of recycling and conserving.