Total Garbage

By Rebecca Donnelly, John Hendrix (Illustrator)

Uncover the hidden world of trash and its impact on our planet.

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160 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Dive into the world of waste with a journey through history and modern innovations. Explore the origins and destinations of our trash, and discover how our choices shape the planet. Can we change our wasteful ways? This engaging exploration challenges us to rethink our relationship with garbage and inspires action for a cleaner future.

From the publisher

Total Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly dives into the messy truth about trash, garbage, waste, and our world–it’s a fact-filled and fascinating illustrated middle grade environmental read! Trash has been part of human societies since the beginning. It seems like the inevitable end to the process of making and using things–but why? In this fascinating account of the waste we make, we’ll wade into the muck of history and explore present-day STEM innovations to answer these important questions: What is garbage?Where does our garbage come from?Why do we make so much garbage?Where does our garbage go?What can we learn from our garbage?How bad is our garbage problem?How can we do better? Rebecca Donnelly tackles the extraordinary, the icky, and the everyday, helping us see how our choices, personal and societal, impact our world and our planet–and encouraging us make a change. Back matter includes a timeline of the history of waste management, selected bibliography, and index.

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