Ask a child what he wants to be when he grows up, and you’re more likely to hear ‘TV star’ than ‘waste hauler’. But, in this modern world of reality television, it turns out the two are not mutually exclusive.

Pie Town Productions, a firm that’s been responsible for more than 50 reality shows over the years, covering everything from house hunting to pregnancy to ‘gaydar’ (yes, a show where contestants compete against each other to guess the sexual orientation of different people), has turned its attention to the waste world.

Junked, currently in pilot stage, follows New York City waste hauler Nick DiMola as he sifts through the metropolis’s waste
to find treasures, trinkets and oddities. Though no network has signed up to take on the programme just yet, you can satisfy your desire to know more about DiMola by reading the trash-hauler-cum-TV-star’s blog at:

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