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Every Monday Mabel takes her breakfast outside and waits for her favorite part of the week: the garbage truck.

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

A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.

"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 innovative ways people all over the world are dealing...

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

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

"Ember comes face-to-face with two evil raccoon sisters who are out to sabotage the neighborhood"-- Provided by publisher.

"What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change-all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates...

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 nearby mines made it uninhabitable. Franklin-Wallis pays keen...