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.
Subjects:	Refuse and refuse disposal. Refuse and refuse disposal > Western countries. Environmental responsibility > Western countries. Refuse disposal industry. Recycling (Waste, etc.) Environmental justice. Déchets > Élimination. Déchets > Élimination > Industrie. Recyclage (Déchets, etc.) Déchets > Élimination > Occident. Responsabilité environnementale > Occident. recycling. Globalization. Geopolitics. POLITICAL SCIENCE. SCIENCE. Waste Management. Environmental. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

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?