Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.

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Hold your nose while you read about the disgustingly fascinating world of garbage!

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.

Banana peels, apple cores, candy wrappers, and dirty diapers—it’s all garbage. No one wants garbage piling up around their homes, so we put it at the curb for the garbage truck. The answers to where that garbage ends up might surprise readers. Informative photographs and a summarizing diagram show readers where our garbage goes. The text also offers ideas on how to help protect the planet by reducing the amount of garbage we throw away.

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences. Before everyone recycled . . . There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”

Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.