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SALVAGE Book 1
4 parts · 12 h 37 min
Vancouver, 1989 to 2007. A nineteen-year-old with no high school diploma buys a used Ford pickup for seven hundred dollars and starts hauling away the things his neighbors are embarrassed to be seen carrying to the curb.
SALVAGE Book 2
4 parts · 16 h 45 min
Trenton and Denver, 1987 to 2025. Two men attack the same number from opposite ends. Tom Szaky, a Princeton freshman with a worm bin, builds TerraCycle on the discovery that a brand will pay to have its own garbage collected when no recycler will touch it.
SALVAGE Book 3
4 parts · 12 h 37 min
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, 2015 to 2026. In an orchard in 2018 a former private-equity analyst named Abhi Ramesh asks a farmer what happens to the apples lying on the ground and is told they are composted, dumped, or fed to the pigs.
SALVAGE Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 56 min
Atlanta, Copenhagen, Paris and York, 2013 to 2025. Two women who never worked together take the same fact from opposite ends. Lucie Basch, a French engineer on a Nestle graduate scheme in England, watches good food leave a factory as waste and decides nobody has priced the last hour of the day.
SALVAGE Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 33 min
Berkeley and Oakland, 2009 to 2022. Two business seniors with offers in consulting and investment banking hear one sentence in an ethics lecture — that mushrooms can be grown on used coffee grounds — and email the professor, who tells them he has no idea where he read it.
SALVAGE Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 41 min
California and Virginia, 1978 to 2025.