How and why did your garbage stop heading to your local landfill - and instead wind up in the poorer parts of the world? For two years I traveled around the globe attempting to understand where trash gets shipped and why.
13.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage
A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.
Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com! I write about "dystopian reality" of the global waste trade, reviewing a brilliant new book by @alexclapp.bsky.social (@littlebrown.bsky.social)
"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
10.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | I’ve Seen the World Our Trash Makes, and It’s Terrifying
The world’s poorer nations have never stopped being receptacles for the West’s rubbish.
For @nytimes.com I wrote about what trash is doing to our planet. For much more analysis, and some potential answers to the crisis, please consider ordering my book, Waste Wars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
14.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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A Journey Through the World’s Newest Narco-State
Drugs transformed Ecuador from a Latin American success story into a war zone Resting on a crest of highland overlooking Ecuador’s Pacific coast, Los Bajos is a squalid collection of rough brick homes...
In less than a decade, Ecuador evolved into a narco-state. How did it happened?
“They’ve built a parallel state. Just as you or I pay taxes to our countries, so here residents pay taxes to the gangs.”
Report by grantee Alexander Clapp for @economist.com. bit.ly/4fLcxC3
29.11.2024 18:33 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
"I believe the money involved in this field" - toxic waste importation - "will exceed that of drugs and may take its place as a fueling force in this country."
-1992 activist letter re: Guatemala in Waste Wars by @alexclapp.bsky.social
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23.11.2024 09:58 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
WASTE WARS examines green hypocrisies, false dramas of recycling, inter-state trash rivalries, and how the offshoring of our consumption footprints has only encouraged waste's proliferation - and a planet now buried in garbage.
www.amazon.com/Waste-Wars-W...
bookshop.org/p/books/wast...
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How and why did your garbage stop heading to your local landfill - and instead wind up in the poorer parts of the world? For two years I traveled around the globe attempting to understand where trash gets shipped and why.
13.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
