refuse and refuse disposal

A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.

"Fifth-grader Cora feels her life is like the garbage her scientist-parents track, as their marriage is ending and Cora's best friend, Sybella, has thrown her away for a new girl"--Provided by publisher.

Trina learns how little pieces of litter can add up to big problems for the planet and why it is important to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

An introduction to recycling, following Tyler as he learns what happens to things when they are recycled, and describing ways to participate with instructions for a related activity.

"How do we end up eating plastic bags? What is 'e-waste?' How do we recycle plastics? This book discusses recycling in a world that has an increasing amount of waste, looking at how effective we are globally at recycling and highlighting issues such as the dangers of recycling toxic or hazardous waste, the potential of 'blackwater' treatment and the use of new building materials that are sustainable, such as guadua bamboo"--Provided by the publisher.

An illustrated introduction to pollution and the effect it has on the environment.

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.

When the Corner Kids decide to clean up a dump to make it a playground, Alex's bossy ways hamper their progress.

Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.