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The Forum: Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

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Rubbish tip (Sri Lanka - Kolonawa Suburb of Colombo) Getty Images

11/06/2016 GMT

Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

BBC World Service - The Forum, Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

Advice from a garbologist, a waste expert and a taxidermist about re-using waste

How we can use waste more efficiently and more creatively with a garbologist, an international waste expert and a taxidermist.

According to the United Nations, we probably throw away over one billion tonne of waste every year. Some goes into landfill, some is destroyed and some is recycled. The mountain of cast-off litter is not just a huge environmental challenge, but a logistical one as well. Bridget Kendall explores ideas about how to harness waste with - Martin Medina, a global waste consultant, who suggests scavenging might be the answer to developing country’s growing waste problems; Dr Tom Licence, an historian at the University of East Anglia and ‘garbologist’, who uses archaeological beachcombing for historical rubbish to unveil our detailed past; Polly Morgan an artist who uses taxidermy to ascribe new meaning to what was once discarded and dead.

(Photo: A rubbish tip in Kolonawa suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Credit: Getty Images)

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