Earth's Garbage Crisis

Earth's Garbage Crisis

Author: Christiane Dorion

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780836877533

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Describes how large amounts of garbage are created today, how to recycle effectively, and why it is important to reduce or eliminate garbage.


Trashing the Planet

Trashing the Planet

Author: Stuart A. Kallen

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1512413143

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Globally, humans produce 1.3 billion tons of garbage every year. Discover the causes and proposed solutions for the global garbage glut, examining pollution on land, in the ocean, in the air, and in space.


Hazardous Trash

Hazardous Trash

Author: Melissa Raé Shofner

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2017-07-15

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1538204398

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"People have accumulated a frightening and environmentally devastating amount of garbage, even in outer space. This book rips from the headlines the powerful stories of some of the world's worst dumps, including Mumbai in India, Dandora in Kenya, and more. Fact boxes chronicle the legal changes made, and not made, in each place with regard to waste management. Statistics presented in sidebars on each spread illuminate the problem for readers using frighteningly true numbers. This book reinforces lessons on recycling, littering, and community activism, and concludes with instructions on how to help with Earth's garbage problem."


What a Waste

What a Waste

Author: Jess French

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1465488588

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In this informative book on recycling for children, you will find everything you need to know about our environment. The good, the bad and the incredibly innovative. From pollution and litter to renewable energy and plastic recycling. This educational book will teach young budding ecologists about how our actions affect planet Earth and the big impact we can make by the little things we do. Did you know that every single plastic toothbrush ever made still exists? Or that there is a floating mass of trash larger than the USA drifting around the Pacific Ocean? It is not all bad news though. While this is a knowledge book that explains where we are going wrong, What a Waste also shows what we are getting right! Discover plans to save our seas. How countries are implementing green projects worldwide, and how to turn waste into something useful. The tiniest everyday changes can make all the difference to ensure our beautiful planet stays lush and teeming with life. It is a lively kid’s educational book with fabulous illustrations and fun facts about the world broken into easy to digest bite-sized bits. Each page can be looked at in short bursts or longer reads for more detail, making it a great children’s book for a range of age groups. Get Involved - Make A Difference! Almost everything we do creates waste, from litter and leftovers to factory gases and old gadgets. Find out where it goes, how it affects our planet and what we can do to reduce the problem. From how to make your home more energy and water efficient, to which items can be recycled and tips for grocery shopping, this book is packed full of ideas on how you can get involved to make our planet a better place to live. This environment book for children has a wealth of ideas for becoming a planet-defending hero: - Discover shocking facts about the waste we produce and where it goes - Learn where about our Earth’s limited resources and how to take some pressure off - Your trash is another man’s treasure - Small changes to take your home from wasteful to super resource efficient - Dive into saving our oceans and super recycling - And much, much more What a Waste is one of several nature books for kids written by Jess French, a passionate conservationist and veterinarian committed to protecting the beautiful world we live in.


Resisting Garbage

Resisting Garbage

Author: Lily Baum Pollans

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1477323724

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Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.


Gone Tomorrow

Gone Tomorrow

Author: Heather Rogers

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1595585729

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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 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


Rush to Burn

Rush to Burn

Author: Newsday Inc.

Publisher:

Published: 1989-07

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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This book tells the story of the Mobro 4000, a barge full of garbage, and the issues it came to symbolize, and then discusses why communities are turning to incineration for their garbage.


Filling the Earth with Trash

Filling the Earth with Trash

Author: Jeanne Sturm

Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1615358773

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Young readers will discover what happens to trash in a landfill.


Filling The Earth With Trash

Filling The Earth With Trash

Author: Sturm

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1731607318

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Young Readers Will Discover What Happens To Trash In A Landfill.