# Taking trash talk to a whole new level

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@UPS
- Speaker: Peter Harris
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_harris_taking_trash_talk_to_a_whole_new_level)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Dealing with the waste of a consumer society is one of the greatest challenges of our modern times. But UPS' Sustainability Director, Peter Harris wonders: what if waste weren't waste at all? He proposes a plan where methane from the trash we produce fuels the machines that transport our critical goods; a closed-loop, circular economy that powers our world along the way.

## Lectures

1. [Taking trash talk to a whole new level](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/peter_harris_taking_trash_talk_to_a_whole_new_level/5197a913c833), 10 min (TED's player)