How This Town Produces No Trash

Watch the next episode about Lauren Singer, who produced only a jar’s worth of trash in 2 years: Subscribe! In 2003, the local government in Kamikatsu, Japan decided to require that all residents comply with a new, rigorous recycling program - perhaps the most rigorous in the world. Since then, the town composts, recycles, or reuses 80% of its garbage. It may not technically be 100% zero waste, as the remaining 20% goes i