Picking through garbage doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, but there are lots of cool things we can learn about our society by studying trash. Garbology means the science of trash. Studying patterns of what people throw away tells us a lot about human society, and what environmental and social issues communities face. Find out how a plastic bottle from a California beach can end up floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for years, adding to microplastic pollution. We talk to Emily Castles, a student at Davis High about Davis Cans for Change, an organization aimed at educating the public and encouraging reducing, reusing and recycling. Our place of the week, Copenhagen, is the most efficient city in the world with garbage and recycling. Only 4% percent of Copenhagen's waste ends up in landfills. In comparison, 70% of waste in the U.S. ends up in landfills!
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