What a Waste

Not sure if you could have guessed this yourself, but landfills are BAD. On this episode of What a Waste, Lucia and Tyler discuss why a sustainable, circular economy isn't possible under capitalism, the history of landfills, landfill juice (leachate), externalities, and the father of trash, George Landfill. Make sure to rate and review!

Hating plastic straws is all the rage, but how did we get here? In this episode Lucia and Tyler explain the history of plastic straws and the sea turtle that started a revolution, and why we need fo focus on the bigger issue of plastic waste (plastic straws only make up a measly amount of the plastic polluting oceans). You also get to meet some of the unhinged characters from the straw world that...

Lucia teaches Tyler what compost is and how food waste in the landfill worsens greenhouse gas emissions, and Tyler teaches Lucia how to build her pantry so that she wastes less food at home. In this episode you'll also learn how to connect with a compost pick-up program near you so that you can start composting food waste without having to get your hands dirty or be reminded that food isn't always...

For this episode, Lucia was forced to understand how cryptocurrency works, which is an impossible task, and she does a surprisingly good job of explaining the basics to Tyler. She explains concepts like mining and why it is taking a serious toll on the environment, the dark side of unregulated currency, how to get onto the dark web through Mozilla Firefox, and what Reddit users FattyMcButtface, He...

On this episode of What a Waste, Lucia explains to Tyler how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is roughly twice the size of Texas, is filling the ocean with harmful microplastics (bad) and creating a new habitat for marine species like barnacles, who are apparently loving it (good? no bad). Lucia also introduces Tyler to a video of her future husband, a man named Richard, who built his own pl...

Do you go around pretending like you actually know how climate change works? On this episode of What a Waste, Lucia explains to Tyler the basics of global warming, and Tyler explains to Lucia why it isn't actually basic.