Trash Trail — Season 1, Episode 2: Coffee Cups
Documentary • 23 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
We drink 630 million cups of coffee a year, and throw out at least 50 kilograms of paper cups every day. In fact each person drinking one cup of coffee out of a paper cup every day for a year, creates 10 kilograms of waste. Some of us try to recycle the paper cups, but what really happens to these cups when they’re collected?
About Trash Trail
What happens to all the waste we discard? Not everything lands up in the incinerator. Stuff like our mobile phones, refrigerators, e-waste or clothes? We imagine them being reused or recycled. But that's one side of the story. Presenter Jason Godfrey is on a mission to find out where our trash goes.