Earning it the title of ‘Filthadelphia’, the trash and litter that defaces the streets of our city is an apt metaphor for the systematic devaluation of underserved communities. Litter is both an environmental and racial justice issue, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown communities…Trash Academy designs projects that complicate the issue of trash and deepen people’s understanding of litter, consumption, and waste and shift attitudes from passive acceptance to proactive responses to the waste stream.