"A boy watching a garbage truck pick up his trash wonders where it goes, and the story follows two garbage bags as they travel to a transfer station and then to a landfill"--

Michael Recycle, the green-caped crusader, may have met his match in Litterbug Doug, who's lazy, wasteful, messy, and careless about the Earth's resources.

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

"Details how to use cardboard tubes in projects that demostrate scientific principles"--

On average, each American throws away a staggering one ton of trash every year. Most of that trash will reach a dead end in a landfill, taking up space and polluting the earth. We can all make an effort to live a life less trashy by recycling, reusing, and being smart about what we buy. But what can we do with the trash we do make? Cities all over the world are making their trash work for them by turning it into energy. In waste-to-energy power plants,...

"A girl tosses her old homework paper into a recycling bin and the story follows that paper through the process of recycling until it becomes usable paper again"--

"A girl tosses her plastic bottle in a recycling bin and the story follows that plastic bottle through the process of recycling until it becomes a new bottle again"--

It's Halloween and Peg and Cat have a big problem! Someone has left the park full of trash and the costume parade might be cancelled. Don't freak out, Peg and Cat save the day by sorting and recycling. Then, they discover they've been trick-or-treating with a real, live tiger!