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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About 20 years ago, Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has actually gotten worse. In an effort to find a biodegradable replacement, the government turned to jute, a cash crop that's grown here for centuries. Can one scientist bring more of this "golden fiber" to a country drowning in plastic?

00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - How To Process Jute
03:16 - The Original Plastic Bag
05:12 - How To Turn Jute Into Plastic
09:31 - Evaluating Bangladesh's Bag Ban
10:37 - Bag Bans Around The World
11:45 - The Future Of The Sonali Bag
12:20 - Credits

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One ton of circuit boards contains about 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Cawley in Sydney, Australia, are cashing in. He’s partnered with Mint Innovation, a company that uses microbes to recover precious metals from electronics. In a single day, Mint can salvage up to $85,000 of gold in their new recycling facility.

Editor’s Note: January 26, 2024 — At 4:28, a graphic in this video incorrectly identifies "Jason Gaber" as "Jacob."

00.00 - $85,000 Per Day
01:24 - Urban Mining
01:56 - Finding Gold In Electronics
02:45 - Massive Recycling Problems
03:09 - Shark Scrapper
04:05 - Making Money From Scrap
04:45 - Dangers in India's E-Waste
06:25 - Mint Innovation — Australia
07:35 - Mint's Methods
08:40 - Recovering Copper And Tin
09:02 - Extracting The Gold
10:08 - Why It’s Safer
10:38 - Wade’s Vintage Electronics
11:35 - Most Valuable E-Waste
12:14 - The Export Problem
12:57 - Credits

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