Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

说垃圾:处理浪费的巧妙方法

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社会与文化

2016-06-13

40 分钟
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According to the United Nations, we probably throw away over one billion tonne of waste every year. Some goes into landfill, some is destroyed and some is recycled. The mountain of cast-off litter is not just a huge environmental challenge, but a logistical one as well. Bridget Kendall explores ideas about how to harness waste with - Martin Medina, a global waste consultant, who suggests scavenging might be the answer to developing country’s growing waste problems; Dr Tom Licence, an historian at the University of East Anglia and ‘garbologist’, who uses archaeological beachcombing for historical rubbish to unveil our detailed past; Polly Morgan an artist who uses taxidermy to ascribe new meaning to what was once discarded and dead. (Photo: A rubbish tip in Kolonawa suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Credit: Getty Images)
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  • Hello and welcome to the forum with me, Bridget Kendall.

  • According to the United Nations, we probably throw away over a billion tons of waste every year.

  • Some goes into landfill, some is destroyed and some is recycled,

  • a mountain of cast-off litter which is not just a huge environmental challenge but a logistical one as well.

  • So that's our subject today, rubbish.

  • New ideas on how to harness the work of scavengers from Global Waste Consultant Martin Medina who joins us from Washington DC in the United States.

  • Archaeological beach combing to use historical rubbish to unveil the past with historian and garbologist Dr Tom License and the subversive sculptures of Poly Morgan,

  • an artist who uses taxidermy to ascribe new meaning to what was once discarded and dead.

  • Welcome to all three of you and a quick question to start with.

  • What does waste mean to you, Tom?

  • To me,

  • waste is a way of thinking about what we want to get rid of and it implies