Via a friend of mine (along with some help from the neighbors - where my friend originally saw it screened), I managed to track down a really interesting video about the modern history of garbage. It is only 19 minutes long, and it details how we as a society had to be taught how to be wasteful. And guess who provided us with that extraordinary teaching? Why industry of course! And the need for the expansion of capitalist markets. As one commentator says in this documentary: garbage is proof that capitalism is working as it should.

This film is a companion to Heather Roger’s book of the same title. Here’s the website. Enjoy!

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