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1) I stink!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
2) About face
Author
Language
English
Description
A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
3) Trashy town
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal. Somehow, a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. In Garbology, Edward Humes reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste.
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7) WALL-E
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Author
Publisher
Munchweiler Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Trash is a concern the world over. Everyone has to deal with it. Few of us however, enjoy it. In fact, some of us downright hate it. This silly story is about a family who truly hates to deal with the trash..."
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
Author
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of waste and waste removal throughout the twentieth century. Focuses on the transition from a society based on reusing and recycling to one that prioritizes disposability, materialism, and convenience. Attributes most of the trends discussed with changes in the American social and economic climate.
14) Garbage
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the problems of waste management and the various ways we dispose of garbage. Includes tips on recycling.
Author
Series
Josie goes green volume 3
Publisher
Geen Writers Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Trash is piling up all over Brooklyn. Where does all this trash come from? And where does it all go? Josie and the gang become trash detectives. But this time they have to organize their teachers too. And just as they are making progress, Josie's brother Damien, who has been acting strangely, disappears! That leads to the biggest surprise yet in the Josie Goes Green series." -- back cover.
17) Pigs: a novel
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
Author
Series
Earth fairies volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
[65] pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicole the beach fairy needs Rachel and Kirsty's help to find her missing magic wand in order to rid the beach of garbage and save the sea creatures on Rainspell Island.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the East Coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.
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