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Gross out! Join Jay, Elisha, Tyler, and Vanessa as they skulk down stinky sewers, dig through piles of garbage, and bug out with leeches and roaches and worms in 4 episodes of exploring slimy and yucky things. Underground: Jay and Elisha take you along as they dig into places right under your feet! You'll creep along on a spooky adventure through dark subway tunnels and smelly sewers to find out where the things we flush down the toilet go. Garbage:...

After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.

Join Backpack Jack and his friends as they dive into the big stinky and amazing story of garbage. Then take a road trip in a big old 18-wheeler and see what it's like to sleep in the cab, hook up the trailer and even talk to other truckers on the CB radio! Scoop up big snow drifts in a snow plow.

Mike Rowe introduces an elite assortment of men and women who make their living doing the most unthinkable jobs that have to be done to keep the world fed and cleaned. Lobstermen, seaweed harvester & snake researcher: Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming. Concrete stamper, penguin keeper & bloodworm digger:...

It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with...