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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"trash"”.
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The Trash Birder's Guide
<p>This collection of essays details the author’s experience with birds and the bird watching sub-culture. The author grapples with obsession, exploration, and human-animal relationships. Essays include the search for peregrine falcons and ‘u’aus, navigating “The Biggest Week in American Birding,” …
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Nuclear oasis : the story of 10,000-year-old trash
Each year, we produce 9,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste to add to the other 250,000 that have accumulated over the last few decades. While there are no clear plans for its permanent storage, one thing remains certain: it will outlive us all and everything we know. Current laws stipulate …
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Queer trash and archival messes: The politics of queer curation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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"Trash Music": Valuing Nineteenth-century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwinds
Opera fantasias have been denigrated as insufficiently intellectual or serious, as derivative, as merely popular or sentimental. However, many of the perceived flaws were, if not hallmarks, at least accepted realities of Italian opera composing. Like opera itself, the opera fantasia is a popular …
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Wasted space: meanings and typologies of informal trash deposits in the Southwestern US
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Hiker Trash and Trail Dogs: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Human Nature in the Trail Space
In the face of declining trail maintenance budgets and increasing recreational use, we must develop a critical understanding of trail culture, including the motivations, perspectives, and experiences of various users and how they intersect with one another. Trail use on National Scenic Trails …
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My Trash, Your Treasure: What Prevents Risk-Based Governance from Diffusing in American Coal Mining Safety Regulation?
Recently, there has been a growth of risk-based governance in coal mining safety regulation in many European and commonwealth countries. However, it is puzzling that the progress is much slower in the U.S. This dissertation seeks to explore this puzzle by examining the question what are the …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… specifically the women who hate me (1983), Trash (1988), and Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature (1994)—explores the unexpected alliances and radical difference and desire produced by interactions between fatness, queerness, and “white trashiness” on the terrain of …
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Community trash as community income in Kathmandu: if waste were treated as a common pool resource through public-private partnerships
This chapter focuses on revamping KMC’s SWM model to achieve two goals: local private sector involvement as a form of PPPs and community interaction. I propose a model that applies the 1999 Local Self Governance Act to enable communities to take charge of SWM in their locale by forming consumer …
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Effectiveness and Cost of Litter (Trash) Removal in an Amusement Park as a Function of Incentive Procedures and Age of the Children
The problem. An incentive procedure designed to facilitate litter removal in an amusement park was evaluated in this study. Procedure. A constantly changing population of vacationing children of varying ages were offered complimentary tickets for amusement park rides contingent upon bags of litter …
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The unfinished miracle : how plastics came to be lost at sea
Plastic trash is an increasingly significant source of pollution in the world's oceans. In some remote ocean regions, it is aggregating by the ton. This thesis investigates plastic trash as an emerging marine contaminant, with a specific focus on: the history of plastic trash in the ocean; areas of …
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Starbucks cups : trash or treasure? : an example of facilitated systems thinking assisting stakeholders in designing their own system to recycle take-away cups
A mixed methods, action-research study was conducted to assess the efficacy and usefulness of Facilitated Systems Thinking as an intervention for system design in complex, multi-stakeholder systems, especially where the stakeholders themselves design the system. This research is contextualized …
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Recycle : resource recovery in Belmont Massachusetts
… and animals living here is improper disposal of trash. The average American throws away 3.5 pounds of trash daily. While we have focused our concerns on the arms race and other looming and important issues, the day to day levels of trash coming from our homes and industries continues to grow. In …
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Wasted treasure in the trash: evaluating the diversion and reduction systems of food waste in an institutional setting based on environmental, economic and social implications
Food waste is a pervasive issue plaguing our modern society that demands immediate worldwide attention. With increasing awareness, organizations and community members are slowly beginning to create change. Municipalities and institutions all over the world are developing a variety of financial …
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