Elisa's goal was to share authentic Italian pasta with Americans so they could experience delightful and delicious Italian pasta: fresh egg-based stuffed pastas and rolled pasta. Elisa sourced all her ingredients from Italy but the 2008 financial crisis made it impossible to survive if she still wanted to make pasta with delicious and genuine Italian ingredients like fresh ricotta. The company closed in 2009.  Throughout the life of her company Elisa always had efficient and sustainable waste management in mind. Fast forwarding from Elisa's pasta company waste management to her documentary production company's newly released 4-part docu-series, Wasteland. This not-to-be-missed docu-series exposes America’s dirtiest secret: food waste & human waste.