Here Comes The Garbage Barge!
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.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: refuse and refuse disposal, barges [X], voyages and travels, islip (n.y.) [X], picture books for children
All That Trash
"The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock--and was one of the events that led to the recycling movement"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mobro 4000 (barge), break of dawn (tugboat), barges [X], refuse and refuse disposal, voyages and travels, islip (n.y.) [X], picture books