The startling and scandalous afterlife of garbage! Tom Sutcliffe rummages through ancient waste and today’s mountains of consumer plastics to uncover the secrets of what we throw away. He’s joined by the business journalist Saabira Cahudhuri whose investigation Consumed explains how we became hooked on disposable plastics and why breaking our addiction is anything but straightforward. The archaeologist Chloe Duckworth brings stories of the mess left behind by our ancestors. And the palaeobiologist Sarah Gabbott looks deep into the future to investigate how today’s junk will appear in the fossil record, in her book Discarded.
