Trash doesn't belong on the ground. Learn what litter is, how it harms the environment, and what to do to keep Earth litter free.

Explains the challenges that face our planet as trash continues to build up, and teaches the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling items in order to reduce the amount of waste produced.

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...

"When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-- travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment....

"An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"-- Franklin-Wallis takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis. He exposes the hidden world that enables our modern economy: multi-billion-dollar industries that quietly profit from what we leave behind....

Your readers will learn about the causes and effects of wasting our resources, from diminishing fuel reserves to saving energy, and how we can recycle to help our planet.

Elmo and his beloved blue blanket are inseparable. When Oscar carelessly tosses the fuzzy blanket into his trash can, Elmo dives in after it. He is suddenly plunged into Grouchland - the land of Grouches, stinky garbage and the greedy Huxley who hasn't learned how to share.

A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.

The animal citizens of Beaston discover better ways to recycle and control their trash.

Tom, Lucy, and Mr. Little must get to Trash City to deliver a message to their friends, the Trash Tinies. But there is a terrible storm! Will the Littles get to the city below the garbage dump? And what will they find when they get there?