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What I discovered in New York City trash

Robin Nagle · TED

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About

New York City residents produce 11,000 tons of garbage every day. Every day! This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city's Department of Sanitation. She walked the routes, operated mechanical brooms, even drove a garbage truck herself--all so she could answer a simple-sounding but complicated question: who cleans up after us?

The talk

  1. What I discovered in New York City trash 8 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDCity2.0
Speaker
Robin Nagle
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Business and management, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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