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New World Notes - The Hidden Life of Garbage
This week on New World Notes: radio program #401, November 10, 2015, Tuesday from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst presents Heather Rogers' 18-minute video documentary from 2005, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. With some introductory remarks by himself.
It's about the growing mountains of waste generated by a consumer economy based on disposable products. It's about the inability of recycling programs to actually recycle most of the stuff they receive. It's about the massive "Keep America Beautiful" anti-littering campaign--an industry ploy designed to head off anti-disposables legislation.
We end with a couple minutes on plastic waste from Annie Leonard's The Story of Bottled Water.
Gone Tomorrow... was adapted to radio by Robin Upton, of Unwelcome Guests. This installment was previously broadcast by New World Notes in June 2011.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Yum-Yum Tree") of WWUH-FM, a community service of the University of Hartford.
You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both A-Infos Radio Project and (from #90 onwards) the Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chronological listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page; each page has links to the recorded audio; and a handy table of contents will quickly find the installment you want.
Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want--and what they're trying to make us settle for.
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