Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?
Subtitle: Garbology Kids Series
Publisher: Firewater Media Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Orlando, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paper (softcover)
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780981243900
Description: Follow Bubbles and the recycling truck … to the MURF. The Materials Recovery Facility! Find out how papers, plastics, metals and glass are collected, sorted and baled to be made into new products.

From the founder of Green Solutions Magazine comes the cheery series with kids who investigate waste and clean up their community. In Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?, Tiana learns about recycling while she and her family searches for their dog Bubbles who had chased after the recycle truck. On their adventure, they explore the MURF—the MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) where they see how recyclable materials are sorted and baled for manufacturing. Based on facts about the process of recycling in industrial countries, this book helps children understand the importance of recycling to save natural resources and much more.

In Where Do Recyclables Materials Go?, you will learn:

how we collect recyclable materials
how we divert recyclable materials from landfills
how recycling saves resources, energy and money
how you can identify solutions for waste disposal through practical exercises
how you can take action through hands-on activities
 	 
Colorful illustrations and diagrams complement the story of Tiana, Peter and Bubbles (their dog).