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United Grocery Outlet, also branded as Bargain Barn Inc. and GO: Grocery Outlet, [1] is a regional discount supermarket chain based in Athens, Tennessee. In addition to its 24 locations in Tennessee, it has stores in Western North Carolina (9), Georgia (4), Kentucky (1), Virginia (1) and Alabama (1).
A lounge chair using reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lumber is processed wood retrieved from its original application for purposes of subsequent use. Most reclaimed lumber comes from timbers and decking rescued from old barns, factories and warehouses, although some companies use wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels.
When free hydroxyl groups are transformed to acetoxy groups, the ability of the wood to absorb water is greatly reduced, rendering the wood more dimensionally stable and, because it is no longer digestible, extremely durable. In general, softwoods naturally have an acetyl content from 0.5 to 1.5% and more durable hardwoods from 2 to 4.5%.
The reclaimer structure can be of a number of types, including portal and bridge. Reclaimers are named based on their type, for example, "Bridge reclaimer." Portal and bridge reclaimers can both use either bucket wheels or scrapers to reclaim the product. Bridge type reclaimers blend the stacked product as it is reclaimed.
Land reclamation in progress in Bingzhou (丙州) Peninsula (formerly, island) of the Dongzui Bay (东咀港). Tong'an District, Xiamen, China. Agriculture was a driver of land reclamation before industrialisation. [26] In South China, farmers reclaimed paddy fields by enclosing an area with a stone wall on the sea shore near a river mouth or ...
Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back". It may refer to: Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds; Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions; Mine reclamation, restoring land that has been mined to a usable state
Used products dumped at a scrap metal recycler. Zero waste, or waste minimization, is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products are repurposed (i.e. "up-cycled") and/or reused.
The Sample – Western New York based retailer founded in Buffalo in 1928 when its founder brought a sample set of 48 dresses back from New York City. At its peak, the retailer was noted for its semi-annual clearance known as the Pup Sale. The demise of The Sample was in 1991 following the death of the chain's chairman a year earlier.