It made headlines around the world, and comedians made fun of it every night on television. The Break of Dawn hauled it to New Orleans where it was likewise rejected, then to Mexico, Belize, Texas and Florida, and each place blocked it from docking. But before the Mobro 4000 docked in North Carolina, environmentalists in that state used legal maneuvers to keep it from off-loading the possibly toxic garbage.
There just wasn’t room in some landfills for all the waste, and garbage companies in the north paid landfills in the south to take their trash. The barge was hauled by a tugboat named The Break of Dawn which left Long Island City in New York and headed to Morehead City, North Carolina, carrying 3,168 tons of garbage.īack then, it wasn’t uncommon for municipalities in one state to send their garbage elsewhere for burial. I believe readers will enjoy the artwork and the story from start to finish.For Earth Day, I thought I’d share a really neat children’s book that illustrates the importance of the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Twenty-three years ago, in March 1987, the Mobro 4000 gained fame as The Garbage Barge when it took an embarrassing round-trip journey along the East and Gulf Coasts, trying to find a place to off-load its stinky, rotting load of garbage, before it was forced to return to New York. This book pretty much was showing how one man's trash is definitely not another man's treasure. showing him that they were not willing to accept the garbage barge. The book was really funny with each place encountered by the Capt. This book showed good artwork, especially when it showed Lady Liberty holding her nose as the garbage barge passed by her. and the garbage barge, they were famous for the wrong reason. Review 2: I thought the book was really successful in showing that regardless of the publicity received by the Capt. It will encourage students to take reusing and recycling seriously.
more steners.This would be a great book to read aloud to kindergarten through second grade students, especially if it could be tied in to a unit about Earth Day or saving the environment. The illustrations and colorful descriptions of the garbage will appeal to the imaginations of young readers and li.
The book's objects and characters are illustrated with pieces of garbage for features which along with the funny barge "Cap'm," Duffy St. This children's book is a fictionalized version of the true event that teaches children of the dangers our throw-away society has on our health and environment. The town's government decided to put all of the trash on a barge and travel down the US coast to see if any other cities can dispose of it. Review 1: Here Comes the Garbage Barge, by Jonah Winter, is based on the true story of when the city of Islip, NY ran out of space in its landfill for all of their garbage in 1986.
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