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Fly Guy and Buzz visit a landfill to discover where their garbage goes. They learn all about garbage trucks, trash sorting, bacteria, and how landfills can be more environmentally friendly. They also visit a recycling plant to learn about how recycling programs get started, the recycling cycle, and what happens when trash isn't properly disposed of. There are even tips for how readers can help keep our planet healthy! --Publisher's description.
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"In Where Does Garbage Go?, early fluent readers follow trash as it leaves the home and heads to the landfill and all the steps in between. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about what happens to garbage. A diagram encourages further learning. Children can learn more about garbage and landfills using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Where Does Garbage...
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"Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. This familiar phrase is a reminder of our responsibility in creating a sustainable world. This title provides readers with an in-depth look at the importance of recycling and conserving. Theyll learn the different methods people use to recycle and conserve resources and the impact these efforts have on Earth. Most importantly, theyll learn what they can do to protect our planet. This information-rich title supports elementary...
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"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...
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My weird school volume 4
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 79
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"Moldy Mozzerella, what was that smell? It was my friend Hercule, and he needed my help. Someone was stealing ... garbage! A rascally rodent had been sneaking into the Recycling Plant and taking their trash. With the help of Flora, the plants owner, Hercule and I try to sniff the rat out of the stench. Can we find the thief before he runs away with all our trash?"--Publisher's description.
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Orca footprints volume 27
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"Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines how garbage hurts animals and their habitats. Illustrated with photographs throughout."--
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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 root of sustainability:...
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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 oceans; plastic in our food chain; what plastic is made of (science...
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