"What happens to your trash after you throw it away? Open this book and lift the flaps to find out. Follow trash on a journey through a gigantic sorting machine and all kinds of recycling processes, and see how it can be turned into new and useful things"--P. [4] of cover.

An Usborne flap book. On board pages. Cover title. "With over 60 flaps to lift"--Cover. Originally published: London : Usborne, c2010. Published in the U.S. in 2011.

What happens to trash? -- Loads of trash -- Sorting it all out -- Recycling trash -- Rotten trash -- Burning and burying -- Big trash -- Trash facts.