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What a Waste: 9 Ways to Fight Climate Change

by Karen Tam Wu

Turning waste into a resource

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Turning waste into a resource

Karen Tam Wu’s book explores ways that discarded materials can be repurposed, from food scraps and invasive plants to wastewater and old clothes. Examples of projects around the world connect everyday waste with larger efforts to protect land, forests, and water, while introducing the people behind those innovations. The focus is on practical reuse and creative alternatives to fossil fuels and conventional materials, presenting waste as a subject for problem-solving rather than simply disposal.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers interested in recycling and green living
  • Children ages 9–12 curious about environmental projects and inventive uses for waste

Themes

Recycling and reuseClimate changeWaste reductionEnvironmental innovation

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Book overview

Humans create mountains of garbage, but did you know you can use that waste to help the planet?

You can heat your house with poop, make coffee with filtered pee and blow your nose with your cereal box. People around the world are finding creative ways to transform food scraps, invasive plants and sea creatures into alternative fossil fuels and even plastics. There are cities reusing water and recycling paper, crops, and old clothes to help protect the land, forests and water.

In What a Waste, young readers will learn about cutting-edge projects to reuse and repurpose garbage, and the people behind these innovations. Do you want to become a waste warrior? Don't just talk trash, reuse it!

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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