"Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?, a children’s picture book, opens up the mysterious world of recycling to children by showing them what happens to recyclables after they are picked up at the curb.”

Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/07/2011 -- EcoAdventures®, an imprint of Firewater Media Group, is pleased to announce that "Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?" by Sabbithry Persad, the first book in the Garbology Kids™ series, has been recognized for its contribution to children's environmental education and literacy. "Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?" is now an Award-Winning Finalist at the USA "Best Books 2011" Awards for 2011, in the Children's Picture Book: Softcover Fiction category. The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards is sponsored by USA Book News, and tailors to a variety of mainstream and independent publishing houses.

Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print, e-books and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and 2011. "I'm thrilled that 'Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?' was selected to be among the very best," said Sabbithry Persad. "I feel honored."

Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year's contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to over 500 winners and finalists. Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of independent houses contributed to this year's outstanding competition.

Persad has since released a second book in the Garbology Kids™ series entitled "Operation: Reuse It!" Both "Operation: Reuse It!" and "Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?" are available for Retail Purchase at Amazon.com and through links at Garbologykids.com. Retailers may order the Paperback version of both books through Independent Publisher's Group with Firewater Media Group, the publisher.

About Persad
Persad is the founder of Green Solutions Magazine and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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"Young readers will learn about reusing in an engaging matter as the story of Operation: Reuse It! unfolds and the children think of creative ways to find new life for Mr. Ogilvy’s old stuff." —Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/17/2011 -- Author Sabbithry has just released her second book in the Garbology Kids series, 'Operation: Reuse It!'

The old adage "one man's trash is another man's treasure" reverberates throughout this book. Chock full of information, 'Operation: Reuse It!' provides children with an engaging way to explore the many different ways to reuse. Persad says reusing is something people have been doing for centuries. With the rise in disposable products, there has been a drift away from reuse habits. The idea is to get children thinking about this age-old concept through an engaging story, facts and exercises at an early age.

Says Persad, "I hope children will play, explore, and pick up a few habits as they read the story. If they do, then perhaps I have helped in some way. The book was written in such a way that anyone could read it… Parents will take away a few things, too. Releasing the second book in the Garbology Kids series is a new and exciting step for me. Each time I attempt to broaden a horizon I have to take a deep breath."

Persad had been working on the second book when she released her first book 'Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?' earlier this year in April. The traditional Paperback version of her first book already had a five-star rating at Amazon.com.

Both books in the Garbology Kids series are available through Amazon.com and through links at GarbologyKids.com.

Sabbithry Persad is the founder of Green Solutions Magazine and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Operation: Reuse It! and Where Do Recyclable Materials Go? are available for Retail Purchase at Amazon.com. Retailers may order the Paperback version of both books through Independent Publisher's Group with Firewater Media Group the publisher.

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Garbology Kids has a special promotion for a book, tote and t-shirt on GarbologyKids.com for the release of “Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?”

Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/21/2011 -- From the founder of Green Solutions Magazine comes the cheery series with kids who investigate waste and clean up their community.

After their dog Bubbles chases after the recycling truck, Tiana and her family set off on a search to the Materials Recovery Facility, learning about recycling along the way. Exploring the MRF on their adventure, they see how papers, plastics, metals, and glass are collected, sorted, and baled, and then sent to be made into new products.

Based on facts about the process of recycling in industrial countries, this book will help children understand the importance of recycling to save natural resources, as well as how they can take action in their own communities.

Ages: 5 and up.

A great tool for promoting literacy, waste/recycling education and community action and involvement.

To register for your chance to win, visit the link below to sign up:

http://www.firewatermediagroup.com/gk/garbology-kids-book-tote-and-tee-giveaway.html

Now available at Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, Chapters.Indigo.ca

Author Name:: Sabbithry Persad
Book Title:: "Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?"
ISBN:: 978-0-9812439-0-0
Publisher:: Firewater Media Group

About Firewater Media Group
Firewater Media Group is a media company that produces high-quality creative entertainment products through publishing and other mediums.

About Sabbithry Persad
Sabbithry Persad is the founder and executive managing editor of Green Solutions Magazine and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Toronto.

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Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/21/2011 -- Discover new educational picture book - Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?, the first in the Garbology Kids series, books that introduce children to waste diversion and disposal concepts through stories and hands-on activities.

- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours.

- A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.

- If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save around 250,000,000 trees each year.

- 9.1 billion plastic bottles were disposed of in 2002 with only 360 million of them being recycled.

- Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them.

Recycling is probably the most widely known waste management concept. Most of us know what recycling means and have a basic idea that recycling materials like, paper, plastic, steel, aluminum and glass will help the environment in some way. But did you know that an average person produces around four pounds of trash in a single day or that industrialized countries generate the most waste in the world?

After reading a lot about the world's waste management problems, Persad wanted a way to encourage children to do something about it.

Where Do Recyclable Materials Go? is the first in the Garbology Kids™ series, books that introduce children to the concepts of waste diversion and disposal through stories and hands-on activities, published by Firewater Media Group. The stories have already gotten her nieces and nephews involved in making changes in their home which affect their community and the environment in general. She hopes this will be the reaction with other children, too.

Where Do Recyclable Materials Go? begins with Tiana sharing with her class what she learned about recycling while trying to catch her dog Bubbles, who had run after the recycle truck. When Tiana, her Mom and her brother set out to find Bubbles, they end up following the recycle truck, just missing it and Bubbles at each pickup stop until they arrive at the MURF--The Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Along the way, they learn many things about recycling and even end up getting a tour of the MURF where they find out more about where recyclable materials are taken and what happens to them.

Like Tiana and her brother Peter, readers will soon understand where recyclable materials go--and how they are sorted and baled for processing into new products. It becomes clear that if everyone would recycle, we could really help our environment.

In her insightful book Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?, Persad delivers a great deal of information about waste and recycling in a fun way that will engage and entertain children 5 and up. She believes that if kids learn more about recycling and waste management at a very early age, they can take the knowledge with them into their adult lives and it will become as automatic as getting in their hybrid/electric car, fastening their seat belt, and brushing their teeth.

Persad hopes that her book relays the message that while acknowledging that "waste" is a growing concern, we can mitigate this growth if we really start paying attention to our surroundings and our behavior, that is, we can all find ways to minimize waste in our daily lives.

Where Do Recyclable Materials Go? is available at your favorite bookstores or wherever books are sold such as Amazon.com. You can also request it at your local school or public library.

Visit the Garbology Kid's website http://ww.garbologykids.com for information.

About the Author
Sabbithry Persad is the founder and executive managing editor of Green Solutions Magazine and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Toronto.

About Firewater Media Group
Firewater Media Group is a media company that produces high-quality creative entertainment products through publishing and other mediums.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm