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Where Does the Garbage Go?

November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR Where Does the Garbage Go? is an interesting book to read with children and use as a teaching tool. It demonstrates the entire process of where our garbage goes, how much we produce per day and what we can do to try to do better. Children will learn what happens when [...]

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Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth

November 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR While many of us know that composting is an environmentally friendly thing to do, most of us are yet to do it. Many more don’t even know what goes into composting. In Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth, Mary McKenna Siddals gives the reader a crash course, ABC [...]

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Here Comes the Garbage Barge

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR This book relates the story of a garbage barge leaving the New York City area and traveling thousands of miles, trying to find someplace to leave the garbage. The barge makes several stops along its journey, and learns that nobody is willing to take on someone else’s trash. Meanwhile, the tons [...]

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All About Garbage and Recycling

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Review By JESSICA ALMY Kiddo has been asking about what happens to trash, and she was appalled to learn about landfills.  So you can imagine her excitement when we rented Backpack Jack’s “All About Garbage and Recycling.” I’d never watched anything with Backpack Jack in it before.  He reminded me of Steve Burns, the original [...]

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