Estimates show that it takes roughly 450 years for a plastic water bottle to decompose. While this number is staggering, the question is: How does our behavior change once we have this information?

Producer Alexandra Salmon and her six-year-old son, Leon Thomas, decide to go on a  tour of the Dane County Landfill, not only to learn about trash but also the people on the tour and how they grapple with the tension between buying new things and reducing their waste.