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English
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The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash-what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families,...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"All the stuff that surrounds us has a life cycle: materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways to reduce, reuse or recycle waste along the way. Children will gain new insight into the routine...
23) About face
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Series
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English
Description
A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
24) Recycling
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Explains how recycling works, highlights which types of materials can be recycled, and explores how art can be created from discarded materials.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Mike Rowe introduces an elite assortment of men and women who make their living doing the most unthinkable jobs that have to be done to keep the world fed and cleaned.
Lobstermen, seaweed harvester & snake researcher: Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.
Concrete stamper, penguin keeper & bloodworm digger:...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Host Mike Rowe demonstrates some of the dirtiest jobs that have to be done to keep the world fed and cleaned.
Bat cave scavenger ; Worm dung farmer: Visit a cave where bat guano (a.k.a. bat poop) is collected for some of the best fertilizer in the world, discover the dirty secret behind major league baseball and take an up-close look at seafood at a fish factory. After exploring the underappreciated world of septic tank cleaners, check out a farm...
29) Reuse it!
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Series
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Introduces early readers to environmentalist concepts including single-use plastics and upcycling, and what they can do to help the environment. Features real-life examples of kids like Lily Platt who have made a difference."--
30) Lungdon
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 3
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the Iremonger family begins a search for a new home in London, residents of the city begin to notice strange incidents, including missing persons, strange objects appearing, a creeping darkness, and lots of rats.
31) Plastic planet
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Takes a look at the pileup of waste in the United States, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we're headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide....
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
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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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kamikatsu, Japan is known worldwide for its sanitation innovations. This small community of 1700 people is leading the way in a recycling and upcycling revolution. As of now, it has nearly achieved its goal of Zero Waste. This is the story of a group of citizens who dared to break out of their comfort zone and make radical change for the good of their town and the planet. Through the eyes of two children visiting their energetic grandmother, we see...
36) Earth science
Series
Publisher
New Dimension Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Students will learn introductory concepts about the earth's components and dynamics, the atmosphere, and the solar system.
Fossils & dinosaurs: State-of-the-art animatronic dinosaurs help to recreate what life was like 60 million years ago. Students will discover how fossils are formed and learn how to look for the clues that reveal how dinosaurs lived and died.
Floods, fronts & the water cycle: Live-action video vividly and dramatically conveys...
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Series
Exploring our community volume 7
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the seventh book in the Exploring Our Community series, the five friends learn all about how to reduce plastic pollution. It's Nick's birthday, and he wants to celebrate by challenging his friends to a No Plastics Day. While going a whole day without using single-use plastic, the five friends learn about how much plastic surrounds us in our daily lives; the garbage patch gyres in the oceans; plastic in our food chain; what plastic is made of (science...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We're all trapped in a convenience-based and wasteful cycle, but Tara McKenna offers an alternative: an approach to reducing waste for a more sustainable and ethical life that emphasizes progress over perfection. This isn't about fitting all of your waste into a Mason jar or going zero waste overnight. For real, long-lasting change that will enhance your life, McKenna guides you through a year of reducing waste, month by month, with lifestyle topics...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. With intimate and inspiring text and powerfully stunning illustrations, Something, Someday reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact.
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