Where Does All the Garbage Go?
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher:
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781400762569
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Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher:
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781400762569
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Author: Paul Showers
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781680651607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.
Author: Ben Richmond
Publisher: Good Question!
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781454916253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains in question-and-answer format how old glass bottles turn into new ones, what the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is, why we throw garbage away, and other interesting facts about trash and recycling.
Author: Claire Eamer
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781554519187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hold your nose while you read about the disgustingly fascinating world of garbage!
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780395786093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Briefly examines how we get rid of the things we throw away, describing some of the problems of waste disposal and some of the solutions.
Author: Heather Rogers
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1595585729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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 garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly and fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage. Gone Tomorrow excavates the history of rubbish handling from the nineteenth century to the present, pinpointing the roots of today’s waste-addicted society. With a “lively authorial voice,” Rogers draws connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our throwaway lifestyle (New York Press). She also investigates the politics of recycling and the export of trash to poor countries, while offering a potent argument for change. “A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents a galvanizing exposé of how we became the planet’s trash monsters. . . . [Gone Tomorrow] details everything that is wrong with today’s wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators. . . . Rogers exhibits black-belt precision.” —Booklist, starred review
Author: Read
Publisher:
Published: 1998-06-16
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780395781609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.
Author: Elizabeth Royte
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2007-10-15
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0316030732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors of massive waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes by encouraging waste or encouraging recycling-often both at the same time; scientists trying to revive our most polluted places; fertilizer fanatics and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper people, steel people, aluminum people, plastic people, and even a guy who swears by recycling human waste. With a wink and a nod and a tightly clasped nose, Royte takes us on a bizarre cultural tour through slime, stench, and heat-in other words, through the back end of our ever-more supersized lifestyles. By showing us what happens to the things we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact-and that unless we undertake radical change, the garbage we create will always be with us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume. Radiantly written and boldly reported, Garbage Land is a brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780822515395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes a garbage truck used to dump garbage in a landfill as well as a truck that carries garbage that can be recycled.
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Published: 2010-02-09
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0375852182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences. Before everyone recycled . . . There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”