Film is a resource-heavy industry, between the innumerable props required, the insane production schedules and the flurry of people constantly barking into headsets like they’re coordinating a ballistic missile launch and not another hackneyed crime procedural that will get cancelled after the first season anyway.
To their credit, many shows are conscientious about their waste, particularly cooking shows, which tend to donate their unused food to local charities. But residents in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood became extremely annoyed this week after The Chi, created by Master of None’s Lena Waithe, rolled into town, set up a fake corner deli (in a neighborhood with little by way of grocery stores) and, at the conclusion of filming, pitched an entire fake-store’s worth of packaged food and household supplies into a dumpster.
