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Author: Jonah Winter

📘 Here comes the garbage barge by Jonah Winter

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.

First publish date: 2010

Authors: Jonah Winter

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