E1 - Mexico City

Aired: September 02, 2011

Mexico City is sinking. The sewers are overflowing, the landfills are closing, and mountains of Trash from iconic celebrations like the Day of the Dead have nowhere to go. But the city is fighting back.

E2 - Jerusalem

Aired: September 09, 2011

Pilgrims have been visiting and dumping trash in the Holy City for thousands of years.

E3 - Tokyo

Aired: September 16, 2011

Whether Super Hi-Tech or Japanese Traditional, Tokyo's 33 million people always find a way to turn their Trash into something useful.

E4 - Los Angeles

Aired: September 23, 2011

Angelenos dumped their Trash into the river, the studios trashed film stock and movie sets in the desert - and no one dreamt what horrors the future might bring.

E5 - Mumbai

Aired: September 30, 2011

Mumbai, financial center of India, fabled city of empires and fortunes. On a trash heap called Dharavi, over one million people earn pennies a day recycling the city's garbage.

E6 - Berlin

Aired: October 07, 2011

At the end of World War 2 (WWII) Berlin looked like a pile of rubble and decades later the city still battles with trash from its tumultuous past.

E7 - Moscow

Aired: October 14, 2011

Moscow churns out five million tons of garbage a year. Some blame Western-style consumerism, but things weren't much better back in the old days, when Peter the Great created the Moscow garbage man.

E8 - Montreal

Aired: October 21, 2011

Since its founding in 1642, Montreal has been partying hard and creating lots of trash. After hosting the World Fair in 1967, Montreal tried to clean up its act, but discovered that changing its culture's mindset was nearly impossible.