Title: Here comes the garbage barge
First published: 2010
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.
Subjects: Voyages and travel, Barges, Fiction, Refuse and refuse disposal, History, Voyages and travels, Juvenile fiction, Mobro 4000 (Barge)
Places: Islip (N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PZ7.W75477 Her 2010