Rebecca Donnelly
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Explains the process of recycling food waste into biofuel, beginning with harvesting food scraps which are collected by garbage trucks, brought to a processing center where the waste breaks down, creating biogas which powers generators that produce electricity. Includes a food recycling web and additional information about green energy sources.
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"Big Money aims to explain economic principles to middle-grade readers in a way that combines the weird and the meaningful, like Planet Money for kids. The book will be organized in seven chapters, each posing a general question and answering it through real-world examples to help readers explore the consequences of their everyday economic choices by connecting the dots between themselves and the larger economic and social systems around them"--
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"This narrative middle-grade nonfiction from Rebecca Donnelly dives into the scientific and cultural history of the waste humans produce, examining why we make so much trash, why we're so bad at handling it, and how we can stop it (that is, us) from ruining the planet"--