Open Trash Lab is an organization dedicated to enabling and encouraging citizens to take an active role in understanding waste’s pervasiveness in our society. Open Trash Lab serves these interests and efforts by facilitating and furthering research projects, hosting regular workshops and events and fostering both public and private partnerships to provide a greater foundation of waste knowledge. Engaging the public to take an active role in understanding waste issues is key to improving our current waste system. Open Trash Lab aims to provide a platform for public discussion and participation in order to create a more informed society and better approaches towards waste management.