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The World"s Lumber Room by Selina Gaye

If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World"s Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for a book, but we are taken on a journey all over the world (and beyond) to explain the many varieties of dust and refuse - animal, vegetable and mineral - how it is made both by man and by nature, what happens to it, and why we need it. We find that recycling is nothing new: man has been doing it for centuries, and nature has been doing it for billions of years. As every

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3:15
00 Preface
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36:04
01 Dust Ho!
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22:49
02 Dust-makers - Frost, Heat, Air and Water
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19:39
03 Dust-makers - Wind, Waves, Rain
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28:38
04 Dust-makers and Dust-carriers - Running Water
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20:25
05 Dust-makers and Dust-carriers - Glaciers and Icebergs
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25:43
06 Dust-makers - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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24:25
07 Dust-makers - Vegetables and Animals
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35:01
08 What Becomes of the 'Dust' - Towns and Cities
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39:57
09 What Becomes of the 'Dust' - Coral Islands, etc.
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28:05
10 What Becomes of the 'Dust' - Flint, Salt, etc.
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32:12
11 Vegetable Scavengers
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26:03
12 Vegetable Refuse
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19:19
13 Animal Scavengers - Termites, etc.
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34:17
14 Animal Scavengers - Ants, Flies and Beetles
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41:26
15 Animal Scavengers - Crustaceans, Birds and Mammals
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25:37
16 Animal Remains and Ancient Dust-heaps
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43:41
17 Household Refuse
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36:03
18 Miscellaneous Refuse
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