Sustainable Futures: Landfill and Waste Issues (2011)

Virtually everything we use creates waste at each stage of its life-cycle: harvesting, manufacturing transport, and use of the product. Communities all over the world are facing a looming waste management crisis as landfills reach capacity and continue to degrade the environment. To counter this, innovators in communities all over the world are developing new solutions to reduce the amount of materials going to landfills. Meet these innovators as they describe and demonstrate solutions from public education to novel creations.