The Green Detective at the Newsagent

by Barbara James (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.24

  This series uses familiar local features to illustrate environmental issues on a global scale, linking everyday activities and environmental problems. It also deals with ways of solving the problems and offers suggestions for activities, projects and experiments. Focusing on items sold by newsagents, this book discusses how subjects like pollution, wildlife and forestry are connected with these products. Flow diagrams show the network of producers, wholesalers and shops, and the production of paper for newspapers, magazines and packaging is examined, along with the environmental problems associated with growing conifers. Other topics include the disposal of waste and the pollution and health aspects of smoking.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $45.41

  This series uses familiar local features to illustrate environmental issues on a global scale, linking everyday activities and environmental problems. It also deals with ways of solving the problems and offers suggestions for activities, projects and experiments. In this book the author discusses why drains are necessary, what goes down them every day and the effect they have on the environment. She investigates how poor sanitation can cause disease and how water supplies, rivers and marine ecosystems become contaminated by household, garden, industrial and farm waste which is poured into drains.