The Secret World Of Your Rubbish

Crapper and Sons run a landfill site that manages 200 trucks of waste a day. At Marylebone station, cleaners fight against a never-ending tide of rubbish.

Workers at Dungeness A, a decommissioned nuclear power station in Kent, have to deal with radioactive rubbish - an operation that requires extreme measures.

In Nottingham, Alan is responsible for a waste-burning furnace that incinerates 180,000 tonnes of rubbish annually.

Scientists from the University of Surrey reveal the methods used to clean up some of the thousands of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth.