24 July, 2018

Q&A recap: Trash TV gets serious as panel tackles war on waste

Monday night was bin night on Q&A, the program where the nation gathers around to sort the recycling of the previous week and argue over who the hell is responsible for all this trash.
AddOz Harvest CEO Ronni Kahn.
Yes, the ABC has hit on a winning formula, and it's rubbish. Who'd have guessed that one man's trash would prove a television treasure - a load of national rubbish that keeps on giving?

That one man - Craig Reucassel - was on the Q&A panel, having reinvented himself from Chaser larrikin to the high priest of the garbage generation in his ABC series War On Waste. This was a big and boldly executed hit for the national broadcaster last year, and on the eve of launching series two, Q&A was keen to capitalise on Australia’s fascination with its plastic-wrapped penchant for consuming itself to environmental exhaustion.


Read the story by Neil McMahon from The Age - "Q&A recap: Trash TV gets serious as panel tackles war on waste.”

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