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• Gifts From the Garbage Truck

  a True Story About the Things We (don't) Throw Away

  Larsen, Andrew, 1960-

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  Explore the hidden potential in what we often discard and think differently about consumption, waste, and the impact of small actions.

• Your Sustainable World

  a Kid's Guide to Everyday Choices That Help the Planet!

  Perdew, Laura,

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  It's your world, so make it a sustainable one! Learn how small, everyday choices can lead to big, positive changes for the planet-from how you use energy to what you wear, eat, and buy. Get ready to go green and create a sustainable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loop De Loop

  Circular Solutions for a Waste-free World

  Curtis, Andrea,

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  Introducing young readers to circular systems, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted, this innovative picture book shows how people all over the world are reusing, repurposing, repairing and designing waste out of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Total Garbage

  a Messy Dive Into Trash, Waste, and Our World

  Donnelly, Rebecca,

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  Dumpster diving into the scientific and cultural history of trash, this book explores present-day innovations to answer some basic questions, such as “Why do we make so much trash?” and “How can we stop it from ruining our planet?”

• Less Is More

  Join the Low-waste Movement

  Payne, Leah (Leah S.),

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  All over the world, people are joining the low-waste movement and getting tough on their trash. We can all do our part for the planet by creating less garbage.

• Team Trash

  a Time Traveler's Guide to Sustainability

  Wheeler, Kate,

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  Sent back in time, an unlikely duo — environmentalist Charlie and artist Oliver — must work as a team to gather recycling data through the ages if they want to return to the present day, where they can use their sustainability knowledge to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sustainable Structures

  15 Eco-conscious Buildings Around the World

  McMillan, Kate (Illustrator),

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  From a waste collection site built entirely from recycled materials, to a school designed to float during flood season in Bangladesh, this dazzling book highlights innovative and sustainably built structures around the world.

• Can I Recycle This?

  a Kid's Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-use Plastics

  Romer, Jennie,

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  Can I Recycle This? skips over preaching and platitudes common to books on environmentalism and instead gets right to the real information that kids need. It takes readers through every step of the recycling process, from the moment that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My First Book of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

  Gilland, Åsa,

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  An innovative board book for babies and toddlers that introduces the concepts of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle at home and helps children connect with the natural world.

• Live Sustainably!

  Boyle, Angela (Illustrator),

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  Presents step-by-step instructions for eight sustainability projects that will help kids roll up their sleeves with confidence to make worm farms, beeswax food wrappers, a bee garden and more.

• Too Much Trash

  How Litter Is Hurting Animals

  Galat, Joan Marie, 1963-

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  This timely book shows middle grade readers how garbage ends up everywhere, endangering animals, including pets, farm animals and wildlife, and what can be done to help clean up the planet for all species.

• Zero Waste Kids

  Hands-on Projects and Activities to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

  Greenfield, Rob, 1986-

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  Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects designed to get kids reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling to benefit the environment and lead more sustainable lives.

• Zero Waste

  How One Community Is Leading a World Recycling Revolution

  Drummond, Allan,

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  In this fifth installment in Allan Drummond's picture book sequence about green living, a village in Japan takes a stand against its throwaway past and shows that it really does take a village to make sustainable change.

• I'm Trying to Love Garbage

  Barton, Bethany, 1982-

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  Overflowing with interesting information and a hefty dose of humor, this picture book explores the history and future of garbage, leaving readers with a better awareness of the garbage they create and where it all ends up.

• Why Does Plastic Hurt the Planet?

  Gifford, Clive,

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  Every single minute, a dump-truck's worth of plastic is emptied into the ocean, trashing beaches, killing wildlife, making food supplies dangerous, and contributing to climate change. Most plastic can remain in the environment for hundreds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Taking Care of Where We Live

  Restoring Ecosystems

  Wilcox, Merrie-Ellen,

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  Introducing readers to ecological restoration, this timely call-to-action shows them what they can do to help ecosystems in their own communities as well as around the world to help make the planet’s ecosystems healthy again.

• Taking on the Plastics Crisis

  Testa, Hannah,

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  In this personal, moving essay, youth activist Hannah Testa shares with readers how she led a grassroots political campaign to successfully pass state legislation limiting single-use plastics and how she influenced global businesses to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Manage Your Eco-anxiety

  An Empowering Guide for Young People

  Grose, Anouchka,

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  Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, the author presents a “tool kit” for teens to help them understand, face and manage their eco-anxiety along with practical advice for being kinder to the planet — and to themselves.

• Green Machines and Other Amazing Eco-inventions

  Meadows, Michelle,

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  The Lorax introduces readers to nine kid-friendly inventions from around the world that are helping to keep our planet green, including edible water “bottles” and a googly-eyed garbage eating machine, encouraging kids to think creatively…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Uninhabitable Earth

  Life After Warming

  Wallace-Wells, David,

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  Adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller, this urgent call-to-action lays out the mistakes and inaction of the past and current generations that negatively affect lives today and how they will inevitably affect the…Read moreRead more of this annotation