There is a haunting beauty to the discarded massive objects like ships, planes, cars, and phone booths that sit in waste graveyards around the planet. These relics of the past and symbols of our disposable culture are spotlighted in Scrap, a new documentary by filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum, who tells the stories of the human beings who have relationships with these objects at the end of their useful life. This episode talks about witnessing what happens to the mammoth waste that we create and discard, and delves into the lost arts of repair, reuse, and restoration that people are reclaiming in the burgeoning circular economy.

Consuming stuff is embedded into our identities, culture, and definitions of self-worth. For the sake of our planet’s health and our own freedom, it is well worth the hard work of dismantling our addiction to stuff. Aja Barber joins Reseed for a fascinating and frank conversation about the journey to consuming less, intersections between fashion, justice, and climate, wildest dreams for remaking the fashion ecosystem, and how to balance individual and collective action to reclaim our power.

Meet the woman who digs through and documents Manhattan’s waste, to divert from landfill, raise consciousness, and create systemic change.

Anna Sacks, aka the Trash Walker, creates viral TikTok and Instagram videos that shed light on the brand new merchandise that luxury brands deliberately destroy in the name of growth. This conversation explores not just our society’s waste problems - but also its solutions.