Here's a racy review of rubbish and recycling through the ages, from the times when pigs were let loose in the street to clean up garbage to today's high-tech methods for re-using glass and plastic. Dig up the dirt on muckrakers and mudlarks. Dive into drains and delve into dumps to find out the lore and law of rubbish. Unearth the facts about spies who fossicked in trash cans looking for evidence of dirty deeds, and inventors hoping to patent the perfect dunny. Once you've read this book, the 3Rs will never be the same again.
This is Book 14 in the IT'S TRUE! Series. See all IT'S TRUE! books here.
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Deborah Burnside's first novel, On a Good Day, was shortlisted for the 2005 LIANZA Awards and was a 2005 Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Book. Her first junior novel, Night Hunting, was a 2009 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Book. She also writes non-fiction.
More about Deborah BurnsideEver since kindergarten, Thalia has been fascinated with stories. She loves the way words can transport her to another world, or teach her anything about this one. She loved reading when she was a kid, and now she loves writing for kids who also love books.Thalia grew up on a carrot farm on the outskirts of Melbourne; it had a bush area down the back that wa
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