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21) WALL-E
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life -- throwing things out -- and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture -- the trash it produces -- and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elmo and his beloved blue blanket are inseparable. When Oscar carelessly tosses the fuzzy blanket into his trash can, Elmo dives in after it. He is suddenly plunged into Grouchland--the land of Grouches, stinky garbage and the greedy Huxley who hasn't learned how to share.
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Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"This book looks at the waste products humans create and how they affect the environment. Young readers learn why what you don't see can hurt you...and also understand the innovative steps they can take now and in the future to make a difference in meeting the challenges posed by the planet's garbage crisis"--Provided by publisher.
26) Garbage
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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Explains waste management problems humans have encountered throught history and how we deal with it now, highlighting key global concerns related to garbage disposal, such as space waste, the problem of plastic, and growing landfills.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Pablo and his sister Sofia spend their days at Treasure Mountain, the local dump, collecting items their mother can sell in order to provide food for the family, but one day a real treasure is discovered.
29) Plastic planet
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The effects of plastics and their manufacturing on human health and the environment are discussed by scientists, manufacturers, consumers and government officials. 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....
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"All the stuff that surrounds us has a life cycle: materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways to reduce, reuse or recycle waste along the way. Children will gain new insight into the routine...
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Description
Where does garbage go? How does it break down? What are the challenges of dealing with so much waste? What can we do decrease the amount of stuff we are throwing away? Garbage explores questions like these while encouraging kids to think about the choices they make that generate garbage in the first place. In this book, kids discover the science of garbology, the fascinating world of midden excavation, and learn about different rubbish warriors who...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
The story of a girl who becomes obsessed with picking through the enormous Deonar garbage mountains in Mumbai in an effort to exploit urban overconsumption to find treasure that could lift her family's fortunes.
Publisher
TurningTime LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"DOGTOWN REDEMPTION is the intimate story of recyclers in West Oaklanda journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty. A surprising number of Americans make their living off America's vast rivers of trash. They are America's unseen. Dismissed as scavengers and pests, these "pirates of trash" come to life in DOGTOWN REDEMPTION, the story of an underclass of shopping cart recyclers, poor entrepreneurs who...
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Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Mike offers to help his friend pick up trash around the neighborhood. But when a rubber duck gets stuck in the garbage truck and trash starts to fall out and litter the town, will Mike and his friends be able to get the duck unstuck?"--Provided by publisher.
37) Junkwraith
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"What happens when our most precious belongings... no longer belong? When something we loved suddenly becomes junk, a powerful energy is unleashed. One night, ice-skating prodigy Florence Sato is overwhelmed by pressure and throws away her skates. This fateful moment accidentally summons a "junkwraith," a terrifying ghost which seeks revenge for its abandonment by attacking the memories of its former owner. Before she forgets who she is, and to find...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock-- and was one of the events that led to the recycling movement."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
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?
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