Talks
Synopsis:
Oliver Franklin-Wallis is an award-winning magazine journalist, whose writing has appeared in British GQ, WIRED The Guardian, The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine and more.
His first book, Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters, was named a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and one of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2023.
We are living in a waste crisis. Sewage flooding our rivers, plastics in ours oceans, rivers, bodies; rubbish shipped abroad and inflicted on the world’s poor. Why? Why do we think so much about where stuff comes from, but almost never about where it goes after we’re done?
