Every year around this time, factories in China are finishing up orders and sending them across the world to arrive in time for the holiday shopping season. But this year, they may run out of time.
Equipped with GPS, a humble shipping container reveals the story of the global economy. Jeremy Hillman, the business and economics editor for the BBC, discusses the BBC Box’s contents and travels. He joins John and Adaora from London.
The increasing push to reuse materials has given one entrepreneur overnight success he says was 20 years in the making. Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet reports on a company that turns steel cargo shipping containers into housing.