By rooting through the trash in the country’s most densely populated city, Sacks hopes to expose just how much of what we deem to be garbage really isn’t. Turning serious, she adds: “But my view is as long as it’s made, it should be used.”Anna Sacks goes through recycling left out for sanitation pickup. Once it’s collected, none of it stays in New York City; roughly two-thirds of Manhattan’s residential waste goes to a waste-to-energy facility in Essex county, New Jersey. Indeed, the American penchant for viewing corporations as the victims of undue government overreach is on full display in the comments section of Sacks’ Instagram and TikTok pages. The evening of our trash walk, Sacks showed me the many doughnuts and bagels left in bags outside a Dunkin’.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2021 09:56 UTC