Instructed to get rid of all her broken toys, Kenya, with the help of her father, recycles them into art for her class project.

Mr. King likes new things and throws his old things in the pond, but a pond monster scares him and he finds a new way to deal with his old things.

Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.

All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.

Uriel drives his paper truck into Villasilla and starts collecting paper, which seems odd from the local police officer's point of view. Un día llegó a Villasilla un señor que tenía cara de cartón. Se llama Uriel y conduce un camión de papel. Cuando pide tener todo el papel en el pueblo, los niños aprenden sobre la importancia de reciclar.

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

"When a little girl's cherished baby blanket becomes old and worn, it is made into a dress, and over the years it is made into even smaller and smaller items, eventually ending up as a bookmark and inspiring the creation of a book. Includes an author's note and a glossary"--

In pictures without words, the reader follows the journey of one brown paper bag from a tree in the forest through the years it is used by three generations of one family until eventually the old bag becomes the container in which a new tree is planted.

The Alden children are volunteering at the recycle center and become suspicious when the place is vandalized.