Where Does the Garbage Go? (Let's-Read-and-Find-out Science Book)) by Paul Showers, Randy Chewning (Illustrator), Randy Chewing (Illustrator)

Product Details

Synopsis

Follow that garbage truck!

...to the landfill to see how trash keeps piling up...to the incinerator to see how trash can be turned into energy ... to the recycling center to see how a soda bottle can be turned into a flowerpot. Filled with graphs, charts, and diagrams, Where Does the Garbage Go? explains how we deal with the problem of too much trash and provides ideas for easy ways to be a part of the solution.

Annotation

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

Children's Literature

Simple, succinct, and clear explanations of how recycling conserves energy and reduces pollution as it decreases waste. This book show the basic steps involved in making new-from-used paper, glass, cans, and plastic; and concludes with a few specific recycling recommendations. A "Let's-Read-And-Find-Out-Science" book.

Biography

Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times.