Who would have thought recycling could be so entertaining?
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The U.K.'s Channel 4 will reportedly broadcast a reality documentary series this fall called Dumped, which will follow 10 people as they live entirely off of other people's garbage. Everything they eat, wear, shelter under or use will have to come from other people's trash, as the contestants will live for three weeks on one of Britain’s biggest rubbish dumps, according to Daily Variety.
"Some of the tasks may be pretty gross, but in compensation the participants will find that even the finer things of life can be catered for -- with the perfectly-useable luxury goods that get thrown away," Andrew Mackenzie, Channel 4's commissioning editor for factual entertainment, told Variety.
Scheduled to film over the summer and then air its entire season over the course of a week in the fall, Dumped is part of Channel 4's commitment to broadcast programs about the environment in 2007.
"By showing how much we all throw away, proving that it's possible to survive on other people's rubbish and giving tips on recycling, the series aims to make a change in the way that participants and viewers live," Mackenzie told Britain's The Sun newspaper. Added Kevin Lygo, Channel 4's director of programs, "It's a way of analyzing issues of how we live, what we throw away and how wasteful we are,"
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Lygo said the contestants "will live on a landfill site the size of Hyde Park," and added that viewers shouldn't underestimate what they'll do with the trash they're calling home. "In the original show in Sweden the participants even found a TV and DVD player on the tip and got them working," he told The Sun.
While some viewers may be concerned about the health and well being of the 10 people living atop a pile of garbage, a spokesman for Channel 4 told The Sun, "Their health and safety will be carefully monitored throughout the project and they will be free to leave at any point."
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