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8 Episodes 2011 - 2011
Episode 1
Sat, Jan 24, 2026
Mexico City is sinking. The sewers are overflowing, the landfills are closing, and mountains of Trash from iconic celebrations like the Day of the Dead have nowhere to go. But the city is fighting back.
Episode 2
46 mins
Pilgrims have been visiting and dumping trash in the Holy City for thousands of years.
Episode 3
Sat, Jan 24, 2026
Whether Super Hi-Tech or Japanese Traditional, Tokyo's 33 million people always find a way to turn their Trash into something useful.
Episode 4
Sat, Jan 24, 202646 mins
Angelenos dumped their Trash into the river, the studios trashed film stock and movie sets in the desert - and no one dreamt what horrors the future might bring.
Episode 5
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
Mumbai, financial center of India, fabled city of empires and fortunes. On a trash heap called Dharavi, over one million people earn pennies a day recycling the city's garbage.
Episode 6
Thu, Sep 29, 201146 mins
Episode 7
Thu, Oct 13, 2011
Moscow churns out five million tons of garbage a year. Some blame Western-style consumerism, but things weren't much better back in the old days, when Peter the Great created the Moscow garbage man.
Episode 8
Thu, Oct 20, 201146 mins
Since its founding in 1642, Montreal has been partying hard and creating lots of trash. After hosting the World Fair in 1967, Montreal tried to clean up its act, but discovered that changing its culture's mindset was nearly impossible.