I've recently watched all three episodes of Wastemen
Episode 1: Features the waste of Newcastle generated per hour. The Council has been trying to make them recycle more and more. Food is turned into compost, metals generate money and paper, plastic and such is burnt to generate electricity. However, what isn't recylced is placed into a landfill, costing the company £80 a tonne. At the landfill they find a footspa that could've been sold on Ebay. They also have to deal with fly tipping from youths, while elder gents seem to be more interested in recycling. One season that generates the most rubbish is Christmas, especially food. Interesting and sad at the same time. How much food is purchased at excess that could feed the poor.
Episode 2: One mans Garbage could be another man's Gold. I suppose that's one way to explain this episode that starts of searching for video games that happen to have been thrown away by 'accident' and they can't find them. It them shows a man who salvages at skips and them sells them on Ebay for whatever worth he can get. They show a piano that couldn't be tuned no matter how many times and its destroyed at the landfill. They also find a dead cat and they inform the owner who was no doubt in tears. I hope that cat's soul sleeps well because its body was suggested to be cremated. They do get a lot of road kills unfortunately, mostly cats but they also get others like swans and deers.
Episode 3 Talks about Sweden having a much better recylcing policy and if waste can generate electricity then brilliant. Its just a shame that Britian rather then adopt these policies decides to just send the waste that's burnt as fuel to Sweden, still its that or in a landfill. They also show a how Scrap metal is smelted so that it can be made into something else, like a skyscraper.
They plan to make new targets towards recycling by 2020.
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