All air is not created equal. This is something you understand once you learn that 80% of incinerators are located in low-income communities of color. In our season finale, we have an unforgettable conversation with Shashawnda Campbell, a community organizer in South Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood. Shashawnda has been fighting for environmental justice since she was in high school when she led fellow students in a victory to shut down the largest incinerator proposal in US history set to be built less than a mile away from their school.

In episode four, we’re tackling fast fashion on the move. Chile’s Atacama desert has become a fashion graveyard for the world’s unwanted clothes. Every year, nearly 59,000 tons of clothing arrive in Chile’s Iquique port from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Santiago-based circular economy expert Marcela Godoy shares the hard truth behind the underbelly of fast fashion and how plastic clothing is destroying the driest desert in the world.

Illegal dumping is skyrocketing in urban areas across the United States. This harmful practice is inflicting grave economic and environmental injustices on the cities’ most vulnerable populations. In episode three, we talk to Ken Houston, a passionate third generation resident of Oakland, California, who takes us into the heart of Oakland and opens our eyes to the harms of illegal dumping on low-income communities of color and the unhoused.

When you think about your country’s top exports, do you think of garbage? In episode two, we hear the touching personal story of John Simon, a Filipino Bureau of Customs Official who has dedicated his 30-year career to ensuring foreign trash is not illegally smuggled into his country.

We’re back with Season 2! First up, our host Shilpi Chhotray meets with Pierre Simmons, an NYC-based musician, and canner, who shares his personal story about becoming a canner and how he creates a living from the empty glass, plastic bottles, and cans lying on the street that often go overlooked.

We invite you on a journey to show you how waste moves throughout our world, across oceans and continents, through organized crime and black markets. Join our co-founder and host, Shilpi Chhotray, as she meets with courageous individuals around the globe to learn what’s really happening when it comes to the business of waste.