Talking trash

Duration: 54

Year Published: 1994

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Combining historical footage, television and industrial clips,statistics and personal stories, this documentary is a humorous but cautionary portrait of America's romance with disposability. The narrator takes the viewer on a personal rummage through the world of garbage that begins in her New England backyard and culminates in a small Texas town. Along the way, she talks about trash with her garbage collector, with Professor Bill Rathje, a garbage archaeologist, and with Donald Collier, eking out a living from people's discards on the streets of Brooklyn. The narrator's journey ends on a serious Note in Ferris, Texas, a community torn apart by the establishment of a colossal landfill.

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