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1) The hill
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English
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"In the near future, a group of girls survive by their own wits and follow the laws of the Manual on the Hill, a reclaimed garbage dump they call home. The cardinal rule? Men and boys spell danger. After a Departure Ceremony releases the eleven oldest girls back to the Mainland, Wren becomes their new leader, and she's desperate to do a good job. So when one of the girls goes missing only a few hours into her new position, Wren makes the fateful decision...
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English
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All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains' edge, making a living by reusing, recycling, and reselling.
Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh,...
3) Waste land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bugs happily living in an empty lot are in trouble when a gang of rats moves in and takes over, but when a group of volunteers arrives to clean up, not only do the bugs get their lot back, they learn about recycling, composting, and garbage dumps. Includes facts about dumps, littering, and recycling.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
One cold, spring morning, an ordinary grocery bag begins blowing around a landfill, then as it travels down a road, through a stream, and into a town, it is used in various ways by different people, many of whom do not even notice it.
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Series
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Year 2160: It's been ten years since the cataclysmic events of Eventide, Water City, where 99.97 percent of the human population was possessed or obliterated by Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and Earth's former savior. Our nameless antihero, a synesthete and former detective, and his daughter, Ascalon, navigate through a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by barbaric Zeroes-the permanent residents of the continent's biggest landfill,...
8) Landfill
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A simple introduction to the purpose and workings of a landfill, describing what happens to garbage after you throw it away.
9) Landfills
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the purpose and workings of a landfill, describing the hazards they pose to people, animals, and the environment.
10) Trashed
Publisher
Blenheim Films
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Description
Looks at the risks to the food chain and environment through pollution of our air, land, and sea by waste.
13) Waste land
Series
Arthouse films volume 19
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of himself and his fellows as environmentalists. The pickers...
15) Trash!
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Examines various methods of garbage disposal, with an emphasis on sanitary landfills but also surveying such alternatives as mass burn and recycling.
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