Triangulation 417: Kate O'Neill: Waste - How trash is shaping global economies and politics
Triangulation (Audio)Show Notes
Mikah Sargent talks with professor Kate O'Neill about her new book, "Waste" and what we can do about the ever-growing amount of trash each of us produces. They discuss what happens to much of our e-waste and how tech companies could work proactively, including the right-to-repair. One big issue is how China changed recycling world-wide, complicating the recycling industry and what happens next. Some solutions to this problem include finding alternatives to plastic and developing a global solution to our waste problem. Mikah and Kate also coin the term "Garbology."
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Host: Mikah Sargent
Guest: Kate O'Neill ("Waste" author)
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