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Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

The Tipping Floor

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 11 months

Oliver Franklin Wallis has not written a book about rubbish, but about the far bigger concerns around how much waste humans are producing and what we do with it.

Unexpected twists in the journey find a strange beauty in the movement of a recycling plant and the surprising legacy of our waste. Among the trash, there is treasure and hope for a better way of processing our waste and a better future.

Written by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Read by Russ Bain
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Naomi Walmsley Show less

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