What Happens at a Recycling Center? (Where People Work) [Paperback]

Kathleen Pohl (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Weekly Reader Early Learning Library (July 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836868951
• ISBN-13: 978-0836868951
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,209,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Ecology

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2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and incomplete., November 22, 2011

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This review is from: What Happens at a Recycling Center? (Where People Work) (Paperback)

Amazon shows a printing date of 2006, the book shows a 2007 copyright...but the info and pictures seem older, maybe early 2000's? Why this matters: most areas of the country now have curbside recycling OR municipal drop off centers. This book pictures a family taking their cans to the sort of small business that might pay for the aluminum. So if you want to know how a modern recycling sorting center works, this won't tell you. It doesn't show anything but how cans get weighed, crushed and put in a bale. End of story. It doesn't even cover what hapens next - how the cans actually get recycled into new cans. It never mentions plastic, glass, paper or other metals. Actually, it doesn't even realy explain what recycling is. I don't think this would teach a preschooler anything.