Where Does the Garbage Go?: Revised Edition (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.

Read more From Booklist Ages 5-8.

The 1974 edition of this Let's-Read-and-Find-Out book began with a girl saying, "Everything goes into the garbage pail in our house." Showers suggested recycling as the solution to the problem of massive waste, but even he probably didn't expect that 20 years later the revised book would begin with a teacher telling her class about the "way things used to be" and contrasting it with current landfill and recycling programs.

Clearly written and accessible to young children, the book explains what used to happen to solid waste, what goes into landfills, and how aluminum, newspapers, glass bottles and jars, and plastics are recycled today.