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[2017]
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Don't let your food waste go to waste! With a little help from a family of worms, you can turn all your kitchen scraps and leftovers into rich, valuable vermicompost for your garden and houseplants. Keeping a self-contained worm bin and harvesting the compost your worms produce is clean, easy, and productive with this classic guide, fully updated.
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2023.
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"An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"--
23) In the garbage
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Andrew lost volume 13
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[2006]
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English
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Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot wind up at a garbage dump when Andrew's latest invention, the Goa Constrictor, shrinks them to the size of beetles and swallows them.
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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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English
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
27) Garbage
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[2004]
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English
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In Garbage, Bill digs up the dirt on ever-expanding landfills from New York to Florida. He also exposes the vast amounts of non-biodegradable waste that humans create.
32) Plastic planet
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...
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2021.
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English
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"Waste. We spend a great deal of energy trying to avoid it, but once you train your eyes to look for it, you'll see it all around you-in your home, your business, and your everyday life. In Wasted, futurist Byron Reese and entrepreneur Scott Hoffman take readers on a fascinating journey through this modern world of waste, drawing on science, economics, and human behavior to envision what a world with far less of it-or none of it at all-might look...
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2018.
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English
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"Now available for the first time in a Spanish edition, a poignant, simply-told story that shows the resourcefulness of poverty-stricken children around the world. Pablo and his sister spend every day at "Treasure Mountain", the local dump. There, they rummage through the mounds of garbage looking for items that their mother can sell in order to provide food for the family. Occasionally, they find a "real" treasure like some still-edible food, or...
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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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"Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. ... [This book] reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact"--
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