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Hello, welcome to factually. I'm Adam Conover and look, despite how fucked up the world we live in is and don't get me

wrong it is fucked up modern life still has its miracles you know we've got

brain surgery air air travel,

video conferencing, and more amazingly,

the ability to ignore a request to video conference.

Who love that modern science.

But there is another pillar of modern life, equally miraculous miraculous that we take completely for granted.

I'm talking about trash.

Think about it. There's this can in my house.

I can throw whatever I don't want inside of it and every week I just wheel it out in front of my building and poof

It disappears. It's gone just gone. I never have to think about it again. I don't know where it goes. It's just out of my life.

This is a pretty crucial innovation in modern society, especially for an economy like ours,

which is based around consumption, around buying as much stuff as possible.

America only has around 4% of the world's population, but we produced 30% of the planet's

total waste.

If we couldn't disappear that trash, the refuse of all of the

wonderful things we're buying, why we'd be overwhelmed by it and then maybe we

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