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Great Recycling Books

Great Books on Recycling

McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition… ( This is one, if not the most gigantic source of ways you can recycle I’ve found yet. Rather expensive, but well worth it!)
By: Herbert F. Lund

 

Save Our Planet : 750 Everyday Ways You… Can Help Clean Up The Earth
By: Diane MacEachern

 

Cradle to Cradle : Remaking the Way We… Make Things
By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart

 

101 Exciting New Uses for Condoms
By: Lori Katz,et al

 

The Gift : A Magical Story About Caring… for the earth-
By: Isia Osuchowska

 

Choose to Reuse : An Encyclopedia of… Services, Businesses, Tools & Charitable Programs That Facilitate Reuse : (This book will definitely empower you and makes it easy to immediately begin recycling)
By: Nikki Goldbeck

 

A Practical Recycling Handbook
By: Kindred Association

 

The Envelope Mill: Recycle Magazines… into envelopes and book/templates! ( This is really an awesome book you can actually earn money doing the activities shown while learning to do things you never thought possible but yet it’ll be so simple. I had to order it!)
By: Haila Harvey

 

Gene Logsdon’s Moneysaving Secrets : A… Treasury of Salvaging, Bargaining, Recycling, and Scavenging Techniques
By: Gene Logsdon

 

The Bag Book: ( Another one on basic and simple ways to create merchandise for sale.)
By: Vicki Lansky

 

Recycled Papers : The Essential Guide
By: Claudia G. Thompson

 

Re Uses : 2,133 Ways to Recycle and… Reuse the Things You Ordinarily Throw Away :
By: Carolyn Jabs

 

The Recycler’s Manual for Business,… Government, and The Environmental Community ( An important guide for those wishing to really become proactive and ways to go about accomplishing it.)
By: David R. Powelson

 

The Complete Guide to Recycling at Home…
By: Gary D. Branson

 

Recycle It : Once Is Not Enough (We Can…
By: Stuart A. Kallen

 

Recycling Household Waste : The Way Ahead
By: The Association of Municipal Engineers

 

The Great Recycling Adventure : A… Lift-A-Flap Look at Old Things Made New
By: Jan McHarry

 

Sew Vintage: New Creations from Found… Fabrics ( I had to order this one as well…couldn’t stop reading about all the great ways to reuse fabrics and materials around the house to create some fabulous new stuff!)
ANOTHER ONE ABOUT GENERATING MONEY FROM HOME!
By: Jennie Archer Atwood

 

Trash to Treasure : The Year’s Best…
By: Anne Van Wagner Childs

 

Rinds and Peels : A Recycling Cookbook CHECK IT OUT!!!
By: Prosperity and Profit Unlimited

 

 

I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH I MAY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED CERTAIN BOOKS OR MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT ONLY A FEW, I CHOSE THIS LIST OF RECYCLING BOOKS FROM AN AMAZING ARRAY OF BOOKS I RESEARCHED, READ AND OR REVIEWED…THESE WERE MY FAVORITE AND THE MOST INFORMATIVE AS WELL AS ENJOYABLE!

 

Good luck to all and let’s leave something good behind.

 

Peace Always-Gigi
Simplitudes


Suggested Reading:

Natural Cleaning for Your Home:
95 Pure and Simple Recipes

Casey Kellar

Clean and Green:
The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping

Annie Berthold

The Natural Formula Book for Home & Yard
Dan Wallace

Use Less Stuff:
Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are

Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje

Living Cheaply With Style:
Live Better and Spend Less

Ernest Callenbach

The Whole Woman
Germaine Greer

Simple Abundance : A Daybook of Comfort…
Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Foxfire Books
Elliot Wigginton

Foxfire 11 : The Old Homeplace

The Natural Guide to Women’s Health
Lynda Wharton

Woodswoman
Anne LaBastille

“Living the Simple Life”
The Elaine St. James Value Collection :…
Elaine St. James

The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Carla Emery

The Big Book of Life’s Instructions
Simple Solutions for Complicated Lives Bykofsky,Sheree/Paul Fargis

The Ultimate Natural Health and Healing
The complete Guide to Achieving and Maintaining Health and Well-Being Through Natural Remedies and Therapies
Mark Evans

Homes Are for Living.
Ina Cumpiano

The Poor Pay More : Consumer Practices…
David Caplovitz

The new cookbook for poor poets and Others
Ann Rogers

Son of hassle-free sewing; further adventures in homemade clothes by the authors of the Illustrated hassle-free make your own clothes book
Sharon Rosenburg and Joan Wiener

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
La Leche League

Encyclopedia of Home Building and Decorating Stanley Schuler

How to Design Your Own Clothes and Make Your Own Patterns.
Claudia Ein

Big Book of Country Living
Ernest Thompson Seton

The Experts Book of Practical Secrets :
From the People Who Know– Over 1,200 Hints and Tips to Save Money, Avoid Ripoffs, Heal Health Problems, and…

Edward Claflin

How to Survive and Succeed Without a Credit Card
Bert A. Berthelsen

The Homemaker’s Book of Time and Money Savers
Jean Laird

Health and Beauty the Natural Way
Nerys Purchon

Ancient Healing Secrets :
Practical Herbal Remedies from Around the World That Work Today

Dian Dincin & Buchman, PhD.

Jeanne Rose’s Kitchen Cosmetics :
Using Herbs, Fruit, & Flowers for Natural Bodycare

Jeanne Rose

Country Folk Medicine :
Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea, and Other Old-Time Remedies

Elisabeth Janos

Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions:
101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize & Nourish Your Skin

Donna Maria Coles Johnson

Modern Ailments, Ancient Remedies :
Healing Manual

Gillian Karr

Natural and Herbal Family Remedies
Cynthia Black

Grandmother’s Remedies
Marian Hoffman

Natural Beauty :
Making and Using Pure and Simple Beauty Products.

Gail Duff


Natural Beauty from the Garden :
More Than 200 Do-It-Yourself Beauty Recipes and Garden Ideas

Janice Cox

Olive Oil
Jacques Chibois

Old Ways Rediscovered
Clarence Meyer

Natural Body Basics :
Making Your Own Cosmetics

Doris Byers

Recipes for Natural Beauty :
100 Homemade Treatments for Natural Beauty

Katie Spiers

Natural Beauty from the Garden :
More Than 200 Do-It-Yourself Beauty Recipes and Garden Ideas

Dorothy Reinhardt

Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair :
Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Every Body

Dina Falconi

Inner Peace Outer Beauty :
Natural Japanese Health and Beauty Secrets

Connie Krochmal

What’s In Your Cosmetics?
Aubrey Hampton

Alternative Medicine
(Teach Yourself Books)

Loulou Brown

Alternative Medicine The Definitive Guide
Burto Goldberg, Burton Goldberg

Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies :
Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems.

Hugh O’Neil

Natural Remedies:
Techniques for Preventing Headaches and the Common Cold

Norman Ford

Prescription for Nutritional Healing:
A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements

James F., Md. Balch, Phyllis A. Balch

The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies
Louise Tenney

Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats
Richard H. Pitcairn

Going to Seed : Edible Plants of the Southwest & How to Prepare Them
Kahanah Farnsworth

The Messies Manual
Sandra Felton

How to Do What You Love for a Living
Nancy Anderson

Baking Soda :
Over 500 Fabulous, Fun and Frugal Uses You’Ve Probably Never Thought of

Vicki Lansky

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
By: Joshua Piven-David Borgenicht

The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a…
By: Andrew Weil, Rosie Daley

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach… Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean
By: Linda C. Cobb

 

 


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