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1) WALL-E
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
3) I stink!
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"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?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Get up close and personal with a wonderful world of waste. From composting and recycling, to landfills and dumps, to how creative people are finding new ways to reuse rubbish. It's fun to talk trash when it's jam-packed with infographics, thematic spreads, photos, sidebars, stats, and facts. Also included are quizzes and activities to inspire kids to take action, be proactive, and rethink the things we throw away.
8) Pollution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been reported that about 90 percent of the population on Earth breathe polluted air. Statistics like that make it even more important that conversations about pollution and conservation are had with the youngest children to start them on a path to care for the Earth. This book introduces these concepts in a fun, simple way that new readers will be able to understand. Colorful illustrations draw in reluctant readers and encourage them to keep...
9) About face
Author
Language
English
Description
A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What is a landfill? What makes some garbage dangerous? Why it is good to recycle and can we recycle water? Kids see the garbage truck all the time but this entertaining and educational book will tell them what it does and where it goes, along with other facts about the trash we create and how it affects the environment.
12) Smash trash!
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As his pet cockroach keeps him company, Wally the robot shovels and scoops trash into his compacter every day, creating compacted trash blocks, and finding "goodies" to collect .
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...
16) Garbage trucks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about the parts of a garbage truck and different kinds of trucks used to collect trash"--
19) Pigs: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
20) Trashed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel based on the author's time spent working on a garbage truck.
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