NewsELA
- NewsELA This link opens in a new window
Search for news articles on any topic and adjust reading level as needed. Teachers can assign articles to their students if they set up their classes, embed questions, and other tools.
Videos on eWaste
eBooks on FollettShelf & Print Books from the Library
Garbage and Recycling by Call Number: FollettShelf eBookISBN: 0737762772Publication Date: 2013-02-19Contains articles from different viewpoints on e-waste, plastic bottles, the effectiveness of recycling and burning garbage, and more. Read this entire eBook online on FollettShelf--log in with your network username and password.
Recycling by Call Number: FollettShelf eBookISBN: 0737769327Publication Date: 2014Contains articles from different perspectives on recycling, incinerating garbage, e-waste. Read entire book on line with Follettshelf.
Recycling Works! by 
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Call Number: 363.72 SHOISBN: 9781422243589Publication Date: 2019Those big blue barrels seen around the country are helping save the planet--fill them up! Recycling is a big part of many people's daily lives. Cans and bottles are just the tip of the iceberg, however. Inside, read about the many ways that you can recycle just about anything and how those actions can help change the world!
Total Garbage by Call Number: 363.72 DONISBN: 9781250760388Publication Date: 2023Total Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly dives into the messy truth about trash, garbage, waste, and our world--it's a fact-filled and fascinating illustrated middle grade environmental read! Topics covered: Excess garbage and where it goes, plastics, e-waste, recycling, food waste, climate change (especially caused by garbage & all our stuff), as well as SOLUTIONS to these problems.
Handheld Gadgets by Call Number: 621.38 MORISBN: 9781410942760Publication Date: 2011-07-01This addition to the visually stimulating Sci-Hi series looks at the application of science and new technologies to handheld gadgets, from the latest mobile phones to global satellite positioning and medical scanner, and how they affect our lives. It looks at new materials, discoveries, and inventions, and assesses their environmental impact.
Garbage and recycling by ISBN: 9780737743371Pages 58-63 discuss the amount of time and energy that is wasted by people having to clean, sort, and return stuff to recycling centers. This book presents different viewpoints on plastic bags, recycling, garbage, and pollution.
Pollution by Call Number: 363.73 PolISBN: 0737735465Publication Date: 2006-09-22the risks of herbicides and pesticides, and the risks of mercury pollution.
Waste and Pollution by Call Number: 363.7 BELISBN: 9781607531395Publication Date: 2010-07-01Discusses the carbon footprint of waste and pollution and ways that the environmental impact of waste and pollution can be reduced.
How Effective Is Recycling? by Call Number: 363.72 CHAISBN: 1484610016Publication Date: 2015How do we end up eating plastic bags? What is 'e-waste'? How do we recycle plastics? This book discusses recycling in a world that has an increasing amount of waste, looking at how effective we are globally at recycling and highlighting issues such as the dangers of recycling toxic or hazardous waste, the potential of 'blackwater' treatment and the use of new building materials that are sustainable, such as guadua bamboo. Read the entire book online with Destiny Discover!
Garbage and Recycling by Call Number: 363.72 GARISBN: 0737750820Publication Date: 2010Editor Candice L. Mancini uses a series of thought-provoking essays to take readers across the globe, exploring international issues relating to garbage and recycling. Is E-waste dangerous in India? Is the Nile being ruined by pollution? Is Serbia doing enough to focus on their waste problems? Is Bangladesh's capital swimming in waste? How is China turning trash into art? Readers will explore these questions. They will learn whether Mexico City is running out of places to dump waste and whether the U.S. has a serious issue with plastic bags. Other cultures explored include Canada, Japan, Australia, Spain, the Philippines, and Sweden. One final treat for readers is they'll explore garbage and recycling in space. Read the entire book online with Destiny Discover
Hazardous Trash by Call Number: 363.72 SHOISBN: 9781538204382Publication Date: 2017People have accumulated a frightening and environmentally devastating amount of garbage--even in outer space! This book rips from the headlines the powerful stories of some of the world's worst dumps, including Mumbai in India, Dandora in Kenya, and more. Fact boxes chronicle the legal changes made--and not made--in each place with regard to waste management. Statistics presented in sidebars on each spread illuminate the problem for readers using frighteningly true numbers. This book reinforces lessons on recycling, littering, and community activism, and concludes with instructions on how to help with Earth's garbage problem.- Thinking Green byCall Number: 640.28 YASISBN: 9781510522176Publication Date: 2016-12-01Contains information about e-waste and other ways to live more sustainably.
"Opposing Viewpoints in Context" Database articles from Gale
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context: E-WasteMany different perspectives on this topic.
*If accessing from home, use the Gale password*
eWaste Websites
- "11 facts About E-Waste." DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change. N.p., n.d. Web.Good facts about eWaste.
- Ahmed, Syed Faraz. "The Global Cost of Electronic Waste." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 29 Sept. 2016.Very informative, but may be a little challenging.
- Reducing Your Facilitiy's Hazardous WasteNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation's 6 part series on reducing hazardous waste. See the other 5 parts linked at the bottom of the page.
- "Chromebooks’ lifespans cost Mass. schools and the environment, new report finds" WGBH/Morning Edition, April 18, 2023A new report says Google should extend the lifespan on Chromebooks to prevent e-Waste and to save school districts money.
Databases to Search
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
- In Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
- FactCite This link opens in a new window
With a simple search screen and easy-to-read layout, you will find articles on biography, American history, countries & cultures, mythology, and science written at a middle school reading level, with read-aloud and built-in MLA citations. Non-distracting and lots of white space support emerging and struggling readers. - EBSCO Explora This link opens in a new window
- Learn 360 This link opens in a new window
Contains educational videos and documentaries on many topics. Includes a written transcript of the videos, as well as teaching materials such as discussion questions. - World Book Encyclopedia--HCC This link opens in a new window
- Encyclopedia Britannica This link opens in a new window
Library Passwords
Please note that eBooks and databases, when accessed from home, require a password. The HCC Library Passwords list is now accessible as a Google document. Log in to access all HCC Library passwords.