- Hi, I'm Aria and I'm in Los Angeles.
- Hi, I'm Aishwarya and I live in Mumbai.
- My name's Luisa and I'm live in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
- My name is Red, I live in Tokyo.
- Hi, I'm Saba and I live in Berlin.
- I'm Giovanni and I'm from Mexico City.
- I wanted to see what trash looked like around the world.
So I contacted six BuzzFeeders, at offices around the globe
to go about their week, and throw away things
as they normally would, and at the end of the week
to empty out their trash, and just to sort it
and see what sort of trash they're producing,
and how they could potentially reduce their waste.
- [Man] Whoa.
- [Aishwarya] Let's put all the plastic on one side.
- Plastic.
Plastic.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Aria] So that's more plastic here.
- Plastic, it just really stinks a lot right now.
- Make it stop, make it stop.
Why is there so much trash?
(speaking in foreign language)
I don't do any sorting stuff.
- Here in Mexico, we don't separate trash that often.
Finally I take my trash out, and it was weird for me
because it was like a weird week;
because I invited some friends and we have beers,
I eat a lot of chips, and I realized I make a lot of trash.
- I guess we don't really realize how much trash
we do tend to gather and build over the course of a week.
And this was a week that I would consider a light week,
in terms of me being at home.
I didn't do very much at home.
For a light week, I'd say that's a fairly sizeable chunk.
- Now honestly I'm very surprised at all the plastic
that I've collected, because at home I'm not into packaged.
Like I'm into a healthy lifestyle,
so at home I wouldn't collect a lot of,
packaged foods, and stuff like that but I guess,
I'm not as sustainable as I though I was.
- There is lots of cat food wrappers and
ice cream wrappers too because
it was very hot these past days.
Juice cartons.
Also this packaging for vegetables and salads, and grapes.
I don't know if it's a lot.
Some of it is probably not necessary.
This is the waste that I've produced during the week.
In total, I think it is a lot.
And I think it wouldn't be such a big problem
if we knew that all the recyclable parts
would be actually recycled.
(gentle music)
- I guess I could definitely work on myself.
Less takeout, more cooking, but if I cook,
then I should also pay attention to how
the vegetables and the salad and everything else,
all the ingredients are wrapped.
You can do better, Saba, is my conclusion to this.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Even if you don't produce a lot of trash,
you can always reduce it.
- When I buy a product, I never think about
the material it's made of.
I mostly just think about my convenience.
And I feel like now, I'm gonna be more aware and mindful
about the kind of trash I'm making.
I think everyone should just life one step at a time,
and if everyone does it, then it's definitely
gonna be a great, great future ahead.
- Hey, Unsolved is on a new channel, and now your part.
- [Both men] Subscribe here.
- That was my part.