Globally, an estimated 20 million informal waste pickers are responsible for more than half of all plastic waste collected. Now, a 30-year fight for fair wages and legal protection has culminated in these workers' first international union. This video explores their essential role in how the world handles trash.

00:00 Intro
01:10 Landfill Pickers In Indonesia
10:37 Collecting Metal From Old Ships
22:18 The Children Working In Delhi's E-Waste Market
27:50 Earning A Living Off A Flaming Landfill
38:28 Hunting For Deadly Explosives In Afghanistan
47:56 The World's First International Waste Pickers Union
51:41 Credits

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this video misidentified Lucia Fernandez’s title. She is the General Secretary of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers, not the Secretary General. Also, we misidentified a videographer as “Mateo Fernandez.” His actual name is Mateo Vazquez.

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Just five years after announcing an initiative to become a "smart city," Colorado Springs is well on its way to achieving that goal. Thanks to the advent of faster and stronger 5G networks, Colorado Springs has implemented several pieces of innovative technology to improve the daily lives of its residents in a sustainable and more efficient way. Some of these technologies are hidden in plain sight, so most residents won't even know they exist. And that's the point. We got an inside look at how Colorado Springs is becoming a smart city.

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Huitlacoche, also known as the "Mexican truffle," is an edible fungus that forms on undeveloped corn ears and sells for as much as $40 a pound. Discovered by the Aztecs, the bulbous fungus has been consumed in Mexico for centuries and has recently become an increasingly popular specialty ingredient around the world.

However, the US has dedicated significant time and money to keeping its cornfields free of what they call "corn smut" and "the devil's corn." Huitlacoche forms naturally during the rainy season, but farmers can also inject the fungus into their cornfields to harvest the valuable "black gold". So why has Huitlacoche become so popular and what exactly makes it so expensive?

00:00 - Intro
00:39 – Huitlacoche Flavor
01:35 – Cooking with Huitlacoche
02:26 – Meet the farmers
03:02 – Harvesting Huitlacoche
03:17 – How the fungus infects corn
04:10 – Huitlacoche shelf life
05:00 –Inoculating the corn
06:10 – Preventing Inoculation Liquid From Overheating
06:50 – Protective Gear in the Field
07:49 – Injecting Improperly
08:27 – Controlled Infection Rate vs. Natural Infection Rate
09:25 – Heading to the Market
10:40 – Huitlacoche in Fine Dining
11:12 – Price Doubling
11:44 – Monopolizing the Huitlacoche Market
12:13 – Huitlacoche Price Changes

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The University of Michigan's Big House is the biggest football stadium in the United States. In secret kitchens, 35 chefs make food for over 100,000 fans. But in a stadium over a century old, moving the food is a logistical nightmare. There's only one tunnel and one service elevator to cart all the food along. We caught up with chefs 24 hours before kickoff to see how they cook for football's biggest crowd.

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At Logan Parlor in Chicago, “men’s” and “women’s” cuts don’t exist. Instead, pricing is based on factors like timing, length, and stylist level — not gender. Jamie DiGrazia, the visionary owner, is at the forefront of working to reshape the haircare industry into a more inclusive space for everyone.

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