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New World Notes - 6/14/2011 12:00-12:30 pm
This week on New World Notes: radio program #171, June 14:
We present Heather Rogers's 18-minute video documentary from 2005, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage plus introduction and other commentary by me.
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.