Henry Carter Hull

A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.

Presents an overview of the garbage problems we face and the solutions government, industry, and citizens are implementing.

Did you know that garbage trucks drive through towns and cities to pick up trash? One garbage truck can hold garbage from more than 800 houses. Find out more about these mighty machines in Garbage Trucks, part of the Mega Machines series.

Studies how people have disposed of trash throughout history and explains why the amount of waste and trash in the world has increased in the last few decades.

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 mean octopus has dumped garbage all over Mermaid Kingdom! The only way to save the mermaids is to find the magic crown!

After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.

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.

A Scottish dustman, or garbageman, who beats his wife and children, takes corrupt payments, and blackmails members of his town, is found murdered.

The wicked Mantora sets another trap for the young mermaids by littering a beach where a seal family lives, and Scarlett's bossiness interferes with the clean-up effort, further delaying the mission to bring the magic crystals home.