CITIES × PUBLIC TRUSTDirector · San Francisco Environment
Tyrone Jue
Can trust be designed into a city system?
Tyrone takes us inside the policy, measurement and public confidence that turn climate ambition into an everyday public service.
Big ideas. Real people. Useful change.
LET'S TALKTRASH.
Global leaders and frontline changemakers unpack AI, behaviour, circularity, conservation, zero waste—and the ideas reshaping how people, places and materials move.
HOSTED BYHASSAN MURADChief Trash Talker
BIGIDEASREAL PEOPLE.
REAL CHANGE.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE✦BEHAVIOUR CHANGE✦CIRCULAR ECONOMY✦ZERO WASTE✦AIRPORTS✦CONSERVATION✦CITIES✦CAMPUSES✦LIVE EVENTS✦PACKAGING✦POLICY✦MATERIAL RECOVERY✦
THE BIG PICTURE
The biggest shifts happen when bold ideas meet the real world.
AI, policy, sustainability, conservation, infrastructure and human behaviour are usually discussed in separate rooms. Trash Talks brings them to the same table.
We meet the global leaders setting direction and the people translating ambition into action—then share what everyone else can learn from them.
✓ global perspective✓ frontline insight✓ ideas worth sharing
VOICES MOVING THINGS FORWARD
Meet the changemakers.
Leaders in cities, campuses, airports, venues, technology, conservation and communities—each bringing a different piece of the puzzle.
CITIES × PUBLIC TRUST
CAMPUSES × BEHAVIOURDirector of Sustainability · College of the Holy Cross
Carly Thibodeau
How do good intentions become visible habits?
Carly explores the partnerships, persistence and participation required to make sustainability real across an entire campus.
SYSTEMS × ZERO WASTECampus Resource Coordinator · UW–Madison
Travis Blomberg
What happens before something becomes waste?
Travis follows the material journey from procurement to disposal—and shows why campuses make powerful living laboratories for change.
LIVE EVENTS × OPERATIONSCorporate Sustainability Director · Sodexo Live!
Molly Crouch
How does sustainability perform at event speed?
Molly brings the backstage view of building sustainability into thousands of meals, guest moments and operational decisions.
HIGHER ED × SYSTEMS THINKINGWaste Reduction & Recycling Program Manager · Penn State
Ayodeji “Ayo” Oluwalana
What does university-wide change really take?
Ayo connects operations, education, procurement and equity to tackle contamination and build a culture of waste reduction across Penn State.
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AIRPORTS × ZERO WASTEOwner & Principal · Airport Zero Waste Consulting
Morgan Turner
How do you redesign waste in a city that never sleeps?
Morgan brings more than a decade of airport planning and zero-waste expertise to the systems moving passengers, partners and materials.
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CONSERVATION × COMMUNITYSVP, Community Engagement & Social Impact · The Florida Aquarium
Tony Rokita
What can conservation learn from championship teams?
After 32 seasons with the Chicago Bulls, Tony brings a career in community leadership and social impact to the future of conservation.
60 SECONDS OF GOOD GARBAGE
Snack-sized trash. Full-sized
ideas.
Scroll, steal an idea, send it to the group chat.
INFRASTRUCTURE × AITHE BIN GOT A BRAINWhat if the world’s most overlooked infrastructure could think?Watch the bin wake up
SORTING × RECOVERY90%+Recycling works better when we stop contaminating it at the source.Bust the recycling myth
POLICY × PACKAGINGWHO PAYS?Companies made the packaging. EPR is flipping the cleanup bill.Follow the money
Professional trash talkerBEHIND THE MIC
Meet Hassan—the engineer asking how big ideas survive the real world.
Robotics engineer → AI founder → professional trash talker.
I was born in Pakistan and grew up across the Middle East, watching technology, infrastructure and everyday human behaviour shape how communities work. Today, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Intuitive AI, the team behind Oscar Sort.
I started this show because the most useful ideas emerge when technology, policy, sustainability and real-world operations speak to each other. So I hand smart people a mic, ask the questions that connect those worlds and keep going until we find something useful.
Connect with HassanBUILT AT · FEATURED BY · HEARD ON
SEEN, HEARD & OCCASIONALLY QUOTED
The conversation travels.
From an early bet on AI for waste to a global conversation about circularity, behaviour and what happens at the bin.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUMAUTHOREDWhy the circular economy needs data to scale
A global argument for making disposal visible—so cities, brands and recovery systems can finally improve what they can measure.
Read the WEF article
TEDTALK · TEDxSFU3 Seconds to Zero Waste
Hassan’s defining thesis: combine artificial intelligence, human psychology and one tiny decision to change what happens after the bin.
Watch the talkFORBESPROFILE5 Entrepreneurs on the Rise in AI
The early story of Oscar, the waste problem worth solving and the former Tesla engineer betting that there is value hiding in garbage.
Read the Forbes profile
SIXTEEN:NINEPODCAST · 39 MINFrom robotics to the bin-tersection
The full founder journey: Pakistan and India, Tesla and robotics, Oscar’s first interactions and the evolution into a global media and materials network.
Listen or read the transcriptTHE WIDER CONVERSATIONMore stories, interviews and field notes
Podcasts, profiles, deployment stories and industry coverage from across the internet.
SUSTAINABLE BRANDSCutting Through the Noise↗SUSTAINABLE FUTURESBridging the value-action gap↗THE BIG STRATEGYThe Billion-Dollar Waste Problem↗ENERGY TRANSITION SOLUTIONSTalking Trash and AI↗BCBUSINESSThe Innovators↗NEXT CANADAThe origin story↗SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNALMaking recycling a winnable game↗SUSTAINABILITY MAGAZINEHow PepsiCo is gamifying recycling↗DAILY HIVEThe first Oscar at YVR↗CAMPUS TECHNOLOGYAI bumps up campus recycling↗TECHCOUVERA billion-dollar breakout↗SF ENVIRONMENTOscar arrives at the Ferry Building↗
GOT A STORY WORTH TAKING OUT?
Put a brilliant waste nerd in the hot seat.
Practitioners, policymakers, operators, researchers and brand leaders welcome. If they've done the work, we want the perspective.
Nominate a trash talkerYOUR TURN. SHOW US YOUR TRASH.
Bring the mess. We'll bring Oscar.
Running a campus, venue, city, property, brand or recovery operation with a waste problem that refuses to behave?
Bring us your waste problem No garbage sales pitch. Just a useful first conversation.ONE LAST THING BEFORE YOU TAKE OFF
Ready to talk trash?
Sort it out.
A Paper Toss–inspired sorting challenge: lock onto a stream, flick upward and watch the crosswind bend the flight.
OSCAR VISION ONLINE · ITEM IDENTIFIED
NOW SORTINGBanana peel
DISPATCH NOTEOscar vision
Oscar identified the object. You decide where it goes.
VivekReferee · Product + Ops
SORT IT!Bella
LET'S GO!CoreySlide sideways to choose a lane, then flick up. The highlighted bin is where it lands.
HIGHLIGHT = LANDING LANEKeyboard or precision mode