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    Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out with 25 Projects
    Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out with 25 Projects
    Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out with 25 Projects
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    Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out with 25 Projects

    By Donna Latham and Beth Hetland

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    Kids become "rubbish warriors" in Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out. Encouraged to think about the choices they make that generate garbage in the first place, readers learn ways to reduce, reuse, recycle—and rethink their actions. Along the way, kids explore the science of garbology, discover fascinating information archaeologists learn by excavating middens, and use projects to investigate the world of trash. Activities include whipping up a delicious edible landfill, brewing natural dyes for a T-shirt, and comparing the effects of commercial and homemade cleaners. Kids will learn that the battle against the world's overwhelming waste problem begins with them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781936313792
    Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out with 25 Projects

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      Garbage - Donna Latham

      Nomad Press

      A division of Nomad Communications

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      Copyright © 2011 by Nomad Press. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review or for limited educational use. The trademark Nomad Press and the Nomad Press logo are trademarks of Nomad Communications, Inc.

      This book was manufactured by Sheridan Books,

      Ann Arbor, MI USA.

      August 2011, Job # 328317

      ISBN: 978-1-936313-46-4

      Illustrations by by Beth Hetland

      Questions regarding the ordering of this book should be addressed to

      Independent Publishers Group

      814 N. Franklin St.

      Chicago, IL 60610

      www.ipgbook.com

      Nomad Press

      2456 Christian St.

      White River Junction, VT 05001

      www.nomadpress.net

      Nomad Press is committed to preserving ancient forests and natural resources. We elected to print Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out on 4,507 lbs. of Williamsburg Recycled 30 percent offset.

      Nomad Press made this paper choice because our printer, Sheridan Books, is a member of Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program dedicated to supporting authors, publishers, and suppliers in their efforts to reduce their use of fiber obtained from endangered forests. For more information, visit www.greenpressinitiative.org

      Dedication

      In loving memory of my grandparents, Rosa and Carmelo Cilia, champions of stewardship.

      Sincere thanks to environmental scientist and first reader Nick Longo; Mary Eileen Sullivan at Friends of the Parks in Chicago; Frances Canonizado at the Alliance for the Great Lakes in Chicago; and rubbish warrior Bonnie Moran at St. John’s Episcopal Church Ecology Group in Oakland.

      Praise for

      Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It out

      "For years we have known that educating kids can educate their parents. That has never been more so than with the environment. The early days of the recycling movement were, in great part, spurred by children questioning their parents’ shopping habits. Earth Day has always involved young people of all ages in projects that can better their communities. Unfortunately, we seem to have lost a great deal of that sense of urgency that led to these initiatives. That’s where Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out comes in.

      Fun and informative with a host of interesting projects, Garbage educates without talking down to the reader. The illustrations are eye-catching and the information provided will appeal to a wide range of ages. The sense of urgency in addressing the issue of garbage, combined with suggestions as to how each one of us can make a difference, is compelling. This is a tool that can be used both at home and in schools—and deserves to be on the bookshelves of everyone with kids."

      —Christine Todd Whitman,

      former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

      "Garbage: Investigate What Happens When You Throw It Out, is a great choice for young readers. This deeply engaging, informative book touches on the history of garbage, where our garbage goes today, and the recycling process. With fun facts and hands-on activities, young readers are able to discover firsthand how our actions affect the world around us. What you do with your garbage is about choices, and changing individual behavior is the first step. The book will teach children at a young age that they can make a difference now and for the rest of their lives."

      —Matthew M. McKenna,

      President & CEO, Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

      This book is filled with interesting facts and suggestions of how to better take care of the earth.

      —Todd Parr,

      author of The Earth Book, winner of the 2011 Green Earth Book Award

      As entertaining as it is informative, this compendium of trash is an absolute treasure. Dig in … and enjoy!

      —Mary McKenna Siddals

      author of Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth

      Praise for

      Amazing Biome Projects You Can Build Yourself, also by Donna Latham

      Although the text addresses young eco explorers directly, this book will likely be used as much by teachers, parents, and organization leaders in planning group activities. Offering an overview of eight terrestrial biomes as well as the ocean, Latham crams a lot of information about climate, plants, animals, soil, and other characteristics onto every page. Instructions for hands-on activities related to different biomes include projects such as pictographs and a cornhusk doll. Students can learn how to make a glacier, an erupting volcano, and a tornado in a bottle. They can create a pinecone bird feeder, conduct experiments related to acid rain, and assemble a desertarium. Latham also lists ways to help the environment in everyday life. Designed for hands-on learners, with adult advice and guidance as needed.

      —School Library Journal

      This high-powered tour of ecological principles is chocked full of information, activities, and science vocabulary. Science educators and parents will be thrilled.

      —Greg DeFrancis,

      Director of Education, Montshire Museum of Science

      Contents

      Introduction

      A THROWAWAY WORLD

      Chapter 1

      HOW MUCH GARBAGE DO YOU PRODUCE?

      Chapter 2

      HEAPS OF HISTORY

      Chapter 3

      WHERE DOES TRASH GO?

      Chapter 4

      HAZARDOUS WASTE

      Chapter 5

      REDUCE

      Chapter 6

      REUSE

      Chapter 7

      RECYCLE

      Chapter 8

      RETHINK

      GLOSSARY

      RESOURCES

      INDEX

      INTRODUCTION

      A Throwaway World

      What have you tossed in the garbage today? A gnawed apple core? A squashed juice box? Maybe you threw away a tattered backpack or an old pair of sneakers.

      Trash is the stuff we consider useless. Another word for it is garbage. It’s what we throw away. Anywhere you find people, you’ll find trash—mounds and mounds of it. Garbage is even on the surface of the moon and in the middle of the ocean.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      landfill: a huge area of land where trash gets buried.

      incinerator: a large furnace that burns trash.

      environment: everything in nature, living and nonliving, including animals, plants, rocks, soil, and water.

      We don’t realize how much stuff we throw away. In just one year, an average family in the United States churns out 6,600 pounds of waste (2,994 kilograms). That’s enough to fill a three-bedroom house to the ceiling. And trash doesn’t always make it to a garbage can. It’s often left behind as messy litter that people carelessly scatter. Litter flutters across our streets, parks, and beaches. No wonder so many people are talking trash these days!

      Trash gets jam-packed into landfills or burned in incinerators. In her book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers writes that most people haul loaded garbage cans to the curb at night and take in empty ones in the morning. Trash is out of sight, out of mind. And we’re happy not to see our garbage or catch a whiff of it again.

      Trash Flash

      Garbage is out of this world! During the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gathered rocks and soil on the moon. The astronauts left behind their boot prints and an American flag. And a heap of space trash. To lighten the Apollo’s load and make

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