Green Word A Day » repurpose http://www.greenwordaday.com A Sustainable Glossary Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:01:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Adaptive Reuse http://www.greenwordaday.com/green-glossary/adaptive-reuse/ http://www.greenwordaday.com/green-glossary/adaptive-reuse/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:25:16 +0000 admin http://www.greenwordaday.com/?p=118 Renovation of a building or site to include elements that allow a particular use or uses to occupy a space that originally was intended for a different use

]]> http://www.greenwordaday.com/green-glossary/adaptive-reuse/feed/ 2 Pete – polyethylene terephthalate http://www.greenwordaday.com/sustainable-dictionary/pete-polyethylene-terephthalate/ http://www.greenwordaday.com/sustainable-dictionary/pete-polyethylene-terephthalate/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:44:19 +0000 admin http://www.greenwordaday.com/?p=114 A strong, shatter-resistant recyclable plastic that is inexpensive to produce. It is made into bottles for soda, water…

May be recycled into fleece, clothing, fiberfill…

PETE is lightweight and poses a low risk of leaching toxic chemicals into contents. It’s petroleum-based.

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]]> http://www.greenwordaday.com/sustainable-dictionary/fly-ash/feed/ 3 Post-Consumer Waste http://www.greenwordaday.com/green-glossary/post-consumer-waste/ http://www.greenwordaday.com/green-glossary/post-consumer-waste/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:11 +0000 admin http://www.greenwordaday.com/?p=63 A waste  produced by the end consumer of a material stream; that is, where the waste-producing use did not involve the production of another product.

Quite commonly, it is simply the garbage that individuals routinely discard, either in a waste receptacle or a dump, or by littering, incinerating, or pouring down the drain.

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