English translation: Leslie Morrow

"... every year since May, 2000, the REMIDA Creative Recycling Center has promoted REMIDA DAY, an event of encounters and celebration to promote the idea that discard materials are a resource. The underlying aims are to foster ethical behavior that opposes the throwaway culture and to give value to the reuse of discard materials, differentiated waste collection, and recycling."--P. 6.

Edited by AGAC; Friends of Reggio Children Association; Instituzione Scuole e Nidi d'Infanza - Municipality of Reggio Emilia; REMIDA, the Creative Recycling Center; Reggio children.

REMIDA, the creative recycling center -- REMIDA days -- Household goods flea market -- Totems : architectures in dynamic equilibrium -- The bamboo forest -- Citta inattesa, May 12, 2002 -- Traces of the children in the city -- Trash gardening -- Materials in dialogue -- REMIDA percussions concert -- Fivehundredmeter rechocolate cake -- A logo for REMIDA -- Trash emergency : who dunnit? a mystery story -- REMIDA prize : literary competition on the theme of waste and recycling -- Reggio riciclo film festival -- REMIDA : exhibit of an experience -- The recycle square -- "Revived objects" project -- Installations and street performances.

This book documents the artwork and exhibits created from industrial waste materials by citizens of Reggio Emilia, Italy.