Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis speaks on the global waste crisis and how it affects people across the globe:
August 1, 2023, 1:32 PMKids carry the garbage they collected from Ananda Bazar Garbage Plant area in Chittagong, Bangladesh on Sept. 30, 2021.In much of the developed world, waste is out of sight and out of mind. But what happens to our trash can have dire implications for everyone.
OLIVER FRANKLIN-WALLIS: Well, as you said, waste is actually this gigantic problem that most of us don't think about. You know, for us, particularly in the North if you're in the U.S., you shove something in the bin, you forget about it, you don't realize that quite often, that's just the start of a very long journey for a lot of things.
DAVIS: A little bit, a little bit gross, but meaningful, certainly. I want to read an excerpt from the book: “Rapids might bubble and waves may froth, but we all know, almost intuitively, that rivers are not supposed to behave like this. I scrape a finger full of foam off my sleeve, thick and weightless. Looking at it I'm immediately struck by a gut feeling, a violation -- that something is wrong.
I think one of the most powerful moments for me was, I went to Ghana in West Africa, which is where a lot of donations from thrift stores, from the UK and Europe and the U.S. and Canada end up. You know, a lot of people think that you take something to the thrift store, you're donating it, it’s something good, which it is.
FRANKLIN-WALLIS: Well, I think that, to be honest, we take for granted that waste kind of powers our world. You know, for decades, for example, when we were importing goods from China, they were coming over on container ships and the container ships were largely going back empty.
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