recycling: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Live About - Recycling Facts and Figures. Nov 01, 2026
Add new Web site: CellPress - Cell Reports Sustainability - Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis. Jun 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Harvard Business Review - Recycling for Profit: The New Green Business Frontier. Apr 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Indiana Unversity Pressbooks - Environmental Sustainability Science - Recycling. Jan 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Organic and Biochemistry Supplement to Enhanced Introductory College Chemistry - Plastics and Recycling. Nov 19, 2025
Media added. Oct 13, 2025
Media added. Jan 31, 2025
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Does Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things? Jan 26, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Review on recycling energy resources and sustainability. Apr 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Econlib - Recycling. Feb 03, 2023
Deleted videos. Nov 26, 2019
Add new Web site: Oregon State University - Division of Finance and Administration - Recycling Processes. Jan 17, 2019
Add new Web site: NASA - NASA Recycling and Sustainable Acquisition. Jun 11, 2018
Add new Web site: NASA - NASA Recycling and Sustainable Acquisition. May 24, 2018
Add new Web site: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Kids Environment Kids Health - Recycle. Apr 26, 2018
Add new Web site: United States Environmental Protection Agency - Recycling Basics and Benefits. Apr 05, 2018
Media added. Aug 16, 2017
Media added. Apr 15, 2016
Added video. Apr 16, 2015
Added video. Apr 03, 2015
Add new Web site: NSW Government - Environment and Heritage - Recycling. Feb 05, 2013
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Benefits of Recycling. Feb 05, 2013
Add new Web site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Recycling. Feb 05, 2013
Add new Web site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Feb 05, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Recycling. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids - Recycling Facts for Kids. Mar 16, 2012
Added image of recycling bins. Nov 16, 2010
Article thoroughly revised. Jan 22, 2010
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Recycling Works. Dec 25, 2008
Added new Web site: Energy Kids - Recycling. May 08, 2008
Article revised. May 27, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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