Nic Stacey and Flora Bagenal discuss their documentary and how to fight our shopping addiction.
The world's consumerism means landfills and waste sites around the world are filling up with unwanted clothes, tech, and household goods.is well timed. It’s a powerful reminder to customers ahead of the Black Friday shopping bonanza that landfills and waste sites around the world are filling up with unwanted clothes, tech, and household goods
TIME: There have been numerous environmental docs in recent years, some of which do touch on global waste. So, in 2022, when you decided to work on this project, what was your vision and what was the gap that you were seeing in the storytelling that you wanted to fill? Stacey: It is tough. But Maren Costa, the Amazon user experience designer, is particularly interesting because she did really try and change the system from the inside.
Bagenal: I think that specific question is a really big problem that we face as the whole world and it requires some big thinking and different ways of doing stuff and kind of dismantling systems as well as building new ones.
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