Heather Rogers was over at The Sanctuary For Independent Media to promote her book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage.

She showed her 2003 documentary on the political history of rubbish in the United States then spoke for about an hour. She talked about how the United States is the number one producer of garbage on the planet and how with just 5 percent of the global population we generate 30 percent of the world's trash with the average American throwing away a staggering 4.5 pounds of trash daily.

She then took questions from the audience and the discussion swung from talk about the Mobro 4000 which was the barge that carried 3.2 tons of trash down the east coast to the gulf of Mexico then back to NY, the future of landfills called mega-dumps, to marketing schemes of the major automotive makers and beverage makerturers.

Interesting and thought provoking topics.