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Explores what happens to garbage after its thrown away. Highlights the history of garbage disposal throughout history, and presents ideas for reducing the enormous amount of waste produced by society today. Includes diagrams, a text-related activity, and resources for further information.
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This book emphasizes the importance of play in the creation of art while challenging children to think about how images are made and what they mean. The design with graphic novel inspired speech bubbles, liftable flaps, and a Turkish-map fold (all four sides open) helps communicate Muniz s exuberant message.
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"A galvanizing exposé" of America's trash problem from plastic in the ocean to "wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators" (Booklist, starred review).
Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But...
Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But...
6) Garbage
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An introduction to the problems of waste management and the various ways we dispose of garbage. Includes tips on recycling.
13) Landfill
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A simple introduction to the purpose and workings of a landfill, describing what happens to garbage after you throw it away.
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This narrative science book about trash digs through our epic piles of trash to reveal not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. The real secret at the heart of this book may well be the potential for a happy ending buried in our landfill. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change and prosper in the process.
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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 can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the...
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