Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash /

"A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clapp, Alexander (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2025]
Edition:First ebook edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Mayhem in Mesopotamia -- Part one: Toxic topics. Banana republic -- The chemical century -- Cash for trash -- Debt and development -- Merchants of disease -- Guns and germs -- Trash ash odyssey -- Rising up -- American exceptionalism -- The waste trade strikes back -- Part two: E-Waste on the Odaw. State and slum -- To the quays of Tema -- Treasure -- Logging on -- Technological tinkering -- The flexible mine -- Start-up cesspools -- A new agbogbloshie? -- Going fishing -- Medical things -- Part three: Aegean abomination. Global junk heap -- Shipping out -- Into the heart of Anatolia -- Deadly business -- Scrap shepherds -- Scrap nation -- At Europe's edge -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Coming home -- Part four: Pacific plastic. A long journey -- Plastification -- The greatest miracle yet -- One-man multinational -- Plastic China -- Mad scramble -- A trash chief -- A trash scion -- Back to the Pacific -- Conclusion: Whither waste? 
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