Here comes the garbage barge
By: Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Chris Sickels.
Contributors: Sickels, Chris, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780375852183; 9780375952180
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal -- Fiction; Barges -- Fiction; Voyages and travel -- Fiction; Islip (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.