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Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers...
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Trash is America's largest export. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment, while America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal--meaning a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. Humes reveals how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back.
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