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Why we recycle

​What exactly is recycling? Why do we need to worry about plastics and other pollutants? This list of selected reads might hold some clues for environment loving kids.

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All that trash

Meghan McCarthy

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The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock. This was one of the events that led to the beginning of the recycling movement.

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Recycling and reusing

Louise Spilsbury

Book

Designed to get kids thinking about the materials we use every day, where they come from, what we use them for and ways in which we can recycle and reuse them to help save our planet's natural resources.

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How recycling works

Geoff Barker

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From sourcing sustainable energy and reducing our carbon footprints through to creating recycling processes and community gardens that provide our growing urban populations with green space and food, find out exactly how and why 'eco works'.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle

Rebecca Rissman

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All sorts of things can be recycled, and turned into something new. Did you know recycled drinks cans can be used to make cars, for example, or that old drinks bottles can be turned into fleece for jackets and coats?

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Recycled science

Tammy Enz

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Learn how to use cardboard tubes, craft sticks, plastic bottles and jugs, and snack packages in projects that demostrate scientific principles such as physics and chemistry.

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Plastic

Eun Ju Kim

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Where does all the plastic waste go? Journey through the life cycle of plastic, how plastics are produced, the many uses of plastics throughout the last century, how our plastic use has spiralled out of control, and what we can do about it.

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Plastic pollution on land and in the oceans

Ruth Owen

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Learn about the problems that plastic is causing in the environment and discover ways to decrease the problem, including recycling, going plastic free, and volunteering to help collect plastic to be recycled.

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Plastic pollution

Geof (Geoffrey David). Knight

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How do plastics harm the environment and our health? Is there really a Great Pacific Garbage Patch? If so, can it be cleaned up?

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A planet full of plastic

Neal Layton

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Everything is made of stuff. Some things are made of paper, like this book. And some things are made of PLASTIC. If you look around you, plastic is everywhere. Even in places where it's not meant to be.

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What happens when we recycle plastic?

Jillian Powell

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This series takes us on the journey a material takes when it is recycled, tracing its step-by-step route from when we finish with it, through the recycling process, to the new, recycled product.

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