Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash

New York City residents produce 11, 000 tons of garbage every day. Every day This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city s Department of Sanitation. She walked the routes, operated mechanical brooms, even drove a garbage truck herselfall so she could answer a simplesounding but complicated question: who cleans up after us TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world s le