A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.

Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.

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.

When Huckle loses his watch in the garbage, he and his friends follow along as a truck puts the garbage on a boat, which then carries it to a dump.

"After Marina throws away the plastic wrapper on her sandwich, the plastic goes on a journey to disturb a series of sea creatures before, later, washing up on a beach where Marina and her family are playing. This experience is Marina's introduction to the harmfulness of single-use plastics, lighting a spark within her to learn more and do more to help the planet"--

"Manny and his friend Gertie join forces to clean up their local park--because every superhero needs a planet worth saving"--

When Minna has a school assignment to make a poster about recycling, her entire rabbit family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and suggesting ideas for her poster.

A mean octopus has dumped garbage all over Mermaid Kingdom! The only way to save the mermaids is to find the magic crown!

Presents a rhyming imitation of all the sights and sounds of the neighborhood on trash day.

It is Earth Day, and Eliot and Tiny celebrate the holiday by picking up garbage, and helping to plant trees in the park.