And that was brought into force to try and deal with the mountain of stuff that is just being made and then living for a while in our homes and then going to landfill.

I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Rubbish and summer did not go hand in hand, and as the waste bags continued to pile up along the streets of Beirut, the appalling stench poisoned the air, rubbing Lebanese people in the nose.

And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around and then back onto the lagoon.