Henry Carter Hull

Simple text and photographs describe garbage trucks, their parts, and their jobs.

Follows the journey of American trash from the garbage can to the dump, the recycling center, and elsewhere, speaking to experts on varied aspects of garbage--odor chemists, conservation scientists, CEOs, and others; examining the impact of consumption on the environment; and exploring options for change.

Examines the findings of the University of Arizona's Garbage Project for the past twenty years.

Graphic novel based on the author's time spent working on a garbage truck.

A dark, dystopian novel from the author of City of Ghosts . Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely...

A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.

A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.

A group of fourteen-year-old boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences.

That potato chip bag you tossed in your trash can this afternoon -- where does it go when it leaves your house? Garbage: Follow the Path of Your Trash with Science Activities for Kids invites middle graders to investigate the world of trash! The average American produces more than four pounds of trash every day -- multiply that by 300 million people and you've got a lot of garbage! Where does it go? How does it break down? What are the challenges...

Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.