Ecycling

Dollywood and galenburg are both in sevier county in tennessee. sever county takes all the waste from nearby cities, mixed solid waste. It has been lotded as one of the best versions of these mixed solid waste processing plants. Instead of all this waste going straight to a land fill, with these machines and the humans that are sorting them, it ends up reducing the amount of trash by about 60%.

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Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling!

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[Trivia Question]

Minnesota paper waste ball

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0

[Fact Off]

Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/

http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/