The hidden economics behind what does and does not get recycled | Tom Szaky | TEDxBoston

We all know how big of a problem waste is. You know, we find at the top of our mountains like Mount Everest. We find it in the bottom of our oceans.You know, I've spent the past 25 years dedicating my life to waste, partly thinking about how to solve it, but in the process discovering a lot of strange anomalies I want to share with you today. you know the very first one when I was studying economics and if you've taken economics class all you do all day is draw economic supply and demand curves like this at ...