Page 2 - Trashing the Planet: Examining Our Global Garbage Glut

To all the students throughout the world working to stop mountains of junk
from burying Planet Earth and searching for creative solutions to the garbage
crisis. And let’s not forget the dedicated scientists, biologists, environmentalists,
garbologists, and just plain folks working every day to solve the trash problem.

Text copyright © 2018 by Stuart A. Kallen

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kallen, Stuart A., 1955– author.
Title: Trashing the planet : examining our global garbage glut / Stuart A. Kallen.
Description: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016033032 (print) | LCCN 2016033466 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512413144 (lb : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781512448665 (eb pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Refuse and refuse disposal—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC TD792 .K346 2017 (print) | LCC TD792 (ebook) | DDC 363.72/85—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033032

Manufactured in the United States of America
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