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  2. Pallet crafts - Wikipedia

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    Pallet crafts are crafts and projects which use discarded wooden shipping pallets. Wooden pallets are often used for shipping products, but when these get old, they are often thrown away. However, there are many ways to recycle old pallets. Issue 14 of ReadyMade Magazine issued out a MacGyver challenge to find some way to reuse shipping pallets ...

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  4. Electronic waste recycling - Wikipedia

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    Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. [1]Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used.

  5. Shinplaster - Wikipedia

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    Shinplaster was paper money of low denomination, typically less than one dollar, circulating widely in the economies of the 19th century where there was a shortage of circulating coinage. [clarification needed] The shortage of circulating coins was primarily due to the intrinsic value of metal rising above the value of the coin itself. People ...

  6. Japanese architect brings example of 'paper tube home' to Maui

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    He began testing recyclable paper tubes as a potential building material in the mid-'80s to avoid industrial waste, before sustainability became hip. He found they were stronger than expected ...

  7. Pallet - Wikipedia

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    Many pallets can handle a load of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). While most pallets are wooden, pallets can also be made of plastic, metal, paper, and recycled materials. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load, which allows handling and storage efficiencies.

  8. Wood industry - Wikipedia

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    In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...

  9. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media.