[What a Waste] was one of the second-prize middle school winners in C-SPAN Classroom's StudentCam documentary contest. Ganesh Ramamurthi, Luiza Cardoso de Araujo, and Rayna Wofford, eighth graders at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, produced this video on the 2023 theme: "If you were a newly-elected member of Congress, which issue would be your first priority and why?" The local cable provider was Comcast. C-SPAN Classroom's StudentCam video documentary contest is an annual national competition in which middle and high school students produce a documentary on a specific theme.