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"Garbage and Recycling: Is Garbage a Serious Problem?; Is Recycling Effective?; Is Toxic Waste Disposal a Serious Problem?; What Strategies Will Help Reduce Waste and Save Money?"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Recycling -- Chapter 1 Reviewing the Elements of Recycling -- Understanding the Recycling Cycle -- Making the Case for Recycling -- Protecting our parks, oceans, and wildlife -- Reducing risks to communities -- Minimizing our carbon footprint -- Securing the future for our children -- Getting Started with Recycling -- Appreciating your role in the solution -- Knowing how to get started -- Taking small steps -- Accepting that things aren't perfect -- Uncovering the life cycle of everyday items -- Recognizing recyclable materials -- Keeping contamination low -- Finding specialist recyclers -- Buying back your waste -- Chapter 2 Getting to Know Your Waste -- Defining "Waste" -- Exploring the Types of Waste -- Seeing What Happens to Waste -- Recycling -- Composting -- Waste to energy -- Landfill -- Applying the Waste Hierarchy -- Avoiding as a way to reduce waste -- Reusing things before they become waste -- Recycling or composting waste -- Recovering the energy from waste -- Sending waste to landfills -- Chapter 3 Understanding the Problem with Waste -- What a Waste -- Looking at the life cycle of everyday materials -- Taking until there's no more -- Understanding how materials degrade -- Knowing that there's no such thing as "away" -- The Environmental Costs of Too Much Waste -- Filling our oceans -- Endangering our wildlife -- Getting stuck or tangled -- Eating plastic -- Examining effects on ecosystems -- Poisoning our soils -- Polluting our air -- The Social Costs of Too Much Waste -- Our Plastic Planet -- Seeing that plastic is here to stay -- Homing in on microplastics -- Surveying single-use plastics.