As a continuation of the Mother Jones series on waste, they have a video on the life cycle of trash. In Part I, reporter Josh Harkinson sets out on a garbage odyssey: “In the best of ways, San Francisco is king of the trash heap. While the average American annually discards more than 1,100 pounds of garbage, the typical resident of the city by the bay trashes 882 pounds, thanks to a Herculean recycling program that recovers nearly half of everything that gets tossed. No major American city recycles more. I wanted to know why. It certainly wasn't because of me.” Watch video HERE.

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