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Murray, Julie

Summary: Little readers can learn about a vehicle they see every day while strengthening reading skill. Complete with colorful and fun photographs that match the text, a picture glossary, and a fun "Parts of an Garbage Truck" page.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Kids 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN MUR

Mulder, Michelle

Summary: "Humans have always generated garbage, whether it's a chewed-on bone or a broken cell phone. Our landfills are overflowing, but with some creative thinking, stuff we once threw away can become a collection of valuable resources just waiting to be harvested. [This book] digs deep into the history of garbage, from Minoan trash pits to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and uncovers some of the many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 MUL

Showers, Paul.

Summary: Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LET

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket SHO

Flynn, Riley

Summary: Describes the sanitation industry, discussing everything from landfills to how waste is now recycled.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press a capstone imprint 2019

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Barton, Bethany

Summary: "Do you ever wonder where we put all of our garbage, who gets rid of it, or how our planet isn't a big pile of mess? I'm Trying to Love Garbage has all the answers! From scavengers to detritivore to decomposers, nature's garbage collectors are everywhere. But humans play an important role too, and our favorite narrator is back to tell us all about it. With Bethany Barton's trademark balance of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.72 BAR

Jiménez, Vita

Summary: Every day we throw things away, but is everything we throw out really garbage? Can it be reused or made into something different? Learn how to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in this catchy song from the Me, My Friends, My Community series.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Meister, Cari.

Summary: "This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about the parts of a garbage truck and different kinds of trucks used to collect trash"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jump 2014

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Franklin-Wallis, Oliver

Summary: Outlining the inequitable ways in which the world disposes of trash and sharing the stories of those affected, the author recounts his time climbing mountains of refuse with "waste pickers," who make a living gathering recyclables from a Delhi landfill, and describes the work of an environmental scientist who oversees the site of a former Oklahoma town abandoned after toxic byproducts from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.72 FRA

Dorey, Martin

Summary: Every kid can be a superhero, fighting plastic waste at home, at school, and in their community. This engaging guide is chockfull of facts, vibrant art, graphics, and #2minutesuperhero missions-- practical ways to take action now. Some ideas may spring to mind right away, such as picking up trash. Others are surprising, such as learning to cook with fresh ingredients or mending clothes. Readers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 DOR

Latham, Donna.

Summary: Introduces waste and recycling, examines the effectiveness of recycling, and uses projects to investigate the world of trash.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.728 LAT

Lindeen, Mary

Summary: Abby and Elmo learn how to keep the Earth clean by properly disposing of litter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.72 LIN

Rathje, William L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.728 RAT

Royte, Elizabeth.

Summary: Follows the journey of American trash from the garbage can to the dump, the recycling center, and elsewhere, speaking to experts on varied aspects of garbage--odor chemists, conservation scientists, CEOs, and others; examining the impact of consumption on the environment; and exploring options for change.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.728 ROY

Miller, Mirella S

Summary: Examines compost center operators, including what they do on a typical day, what the grossest parts of the job are, and what technology they use to stay safe and make the job less gross.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 631.8 MIL

Ritchie, Scot

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019

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Summary: Looks at the risks to the food chain and environment through pollution of our air, land, and sea by waste.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Blenheim Films 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Minter, Adam

Summary: "When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-- travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.473 MIN

Bridges, Sarah.

Summary: Explains what happens when you drive a garbage truck.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Bridges 2005

Humes, Edward.

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 628.4 HUM

Jensen, Derrick

Summary: A piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, writer Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and beautiful prose to remind us that life--human and nonhuman--will not go on unless we do everything we...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 JEN

Shores, Erika L.

Summary: "Explains the journey waste takes from garbage cans and recycling bins to landfills and recycling centers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 628.4 Sho

Turnbull, Stephanie.

Summary: A brief illustrated introduction to refuse and how it can be recycled.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Ecology Turnbull

Ward, D. J. (David John)

Summary: Explains the challenges that face our planet as trash continues to build up, and teaches the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling items in order to reduce the amount of waste produced.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LET

Zimmerman, Andrea Griffing.

Summary: Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ZIM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: JE REF ZIM
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZIM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZIM

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