Alexander Clapp

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.

You can read it here:

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.

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"

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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.

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Waste Wars A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar glob...

The wonderful journalist Alexander Clapp (@alexclapp.bsky.social) has a book coming out shortly with @littlebrown.bsky.social; very excited to read this! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...

In one month:

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

"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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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.

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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.