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<span class="text"><font color="#000000" class="text"> <p><span style="line-height: 2.5;"> <p> American Reclamation chronicles the recycling culture and industry in America. We generate about 250 million tons of garbage a year, but at both the individual and industrial level, recycling removes waste from the landfill, breathing new life into it. American Reclamation contains portraits of the people, machines, processes and products born from recycling, including Freecycle.org—in which millions of people have resolved to swap items rather than trash them—and a 300-ton-per-hour mega-crusher at a company called Metal Management.</p> <p> This is not an exposé of the world of waste, but an optimistic celebration of the innovation out there, the secret worlds of salvage. Most of us know nothing about what happens to our reusable castoffs once they leave our curbside recycling bins, so I’ll show them: boneyards, bio-fuels and even thrift stores. Subjects include rubber processing plants, incinerators and images of the U.S.S. New York, crafted from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center site. The book includes portraits of methane reclamation—in which the gas generated by landfills is trapped and used for power—or blasting mats, where tires are reworked into rubber rugs.</p> </span></p></font></span><br> <h1> 250 million tons of garbage a year reuse recycling trash steel </h1>
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