Why Trash Isn’t Useless | An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

Every day we create mountains of trash. But maybe how we define waste should be rethought, treating it instead as an untapped resource. In this episode of An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau travels the world to meet people transforming waste into creation. From state-of-the-art incinerators to mushrooms that eat construction material and an effort to clean one of the world’s most sacred rivers, they are changing the narrative to show how waste is actually a valuable raw material.

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Post from Bloomberg on October 29, 2025

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