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[Trivia Question]

Minnesota paper waste ball

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0

[Fact Off]

Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/

http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7

Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feet

https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/

https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-fly

https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste management

https://www.seviersolidwaste.com/

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/

https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdf

https://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/

https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/

http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html

[Butt One More Thing]

Iron nutrient recycling through whale poop

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstract

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370118