Event 546
BBC Radio 4: Start The Week
Tom Sutcliffe with Alex Clapp, Chloe Duckworth and Sarah Gabbott
– Exchange Marquee
The startling and scandalous afterlife of garbage! Tom Sutcliffe rummages through ancient waste and today’s mountains of rubbish to uncover the secrets of what we throw away. He’s joined by the journalist Alex Clapp whose investigation Waste Wars exposes the catastrophic reality of the global garbage trade. 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.
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