Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 031645902X
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031645902X
ISBN-13
9780316459020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28068283513
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waste Wars : the Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental / Waste Management, Globalization, Economics / General
Publication Year
2025
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-941719
Reviews
"Since its inception centuries ago, the global economy has consisted of complex commodity chains: extracting, transporting, manufacturing, distributing, profiting. Only very recently in historical times have we added the 'downstream' chains, dumping the resultant consumer waste -- somewhere, somehow. In rich countries, we pay high municipal fees for the removal of our refuse. We may even feel good about sorting to recycle it. Does this do any good? If the news is really so bad, better that someone as sober and courageous as Alexander Clapp delivers it to us."-- Georgi Derluguian, author of Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus, "Citing astounding statistics on the growth of waste and weaving in wrenching stories of people whose lives have been upended by garbage from far away, Clapp shines a spotlight on a subject that needs to be addressed."-- Booklist, "Clapp's important and courageous book explores the environmental damage unleashed by the west's offloading of its trash." -- Financial Times, "Waste Wars is the Star Wars of trash, a witty and brave account of Alexander Clapp's journey into the underbelly of modern life. You'll meet garbage-spotting drones, journalists who register pet fish as waste brokers, and go on a hunt for the El Dorado of poison. As Clapp explains, we live in a world where our ability to create garbage has surpassed Earth's ability to generate life. The consequences are terrifying, but Clapp's great book somehow leaves you awe-inspired by the sheer outrageousness of the human ingenuity that has created this toxic mess." -- Jeff Goodell, author of the New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First, "Out of sight, out of mind. Waste Wars, however, puts the picture very much into your mind, and it's hard to imagine any reasonably affluent Western reader--and compared with the people in the places where the rubbish ends up, every Western reader is 'affluent'--reading this book and not having their conceptions of the world fundamentally changed."-- The Daily Telegraph, " Waste Wars is perhaps the most comprehensive indictment of consumer capitalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring . Fearless as he travels to some of the least appealing places on earth, Alexander Clapp lifts the heavy stones of green washing to reveal the literal and moral filth that Western societies have been dumping on their poorer cousins in Latin America, Africa, and Asia for decades. Always engagingly written with jaw-dropping anthropological detail, Clapp introduces us to courageous tragic characters compelled to clean up the mess of Western material avarice from the bizarre electronic slums of Ghana to the deathyards breaking up ships in Turkey, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. If you wish to know how the world really works, read this book."-- Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, "Alexander Clapp traveled across continents, jungles and trash heaps to bring to life the real, multi-billion-dollar story of what happens to our garbage. Clapp presents a frank, and frankly gross, examination of who is making money off what we throw away... this 400-page microhistory will be fun, funky and, of course, leave no dumpster undived."-- Scientific American, 10 Most Anticipated Microhistories for 2025, "Journalist Clapp debuts with a rollicking deep dive into the absurdities and intricacies of the global trash trade... Clapp chronicles how, despite these nations having since banded together to end the toxic waste trade, it has continued to flourish under the guise of recycling... It's a stirring and dogged investigation."-- Publishers Weekly, "Waste Wars is the Star Wars of trash, a witty and brave account of Alexander Clapp's journey into the underbelly of modern life. You'll meet garbage-spotting drones, journalists who register pet fish as waste brokers, and go on a hunt for the El Dorado of poison. As Clapp explains, we live in a world where our ability to create garbage has surpassed Earth's ability to generate life. The consequences are terrifying, but Clapp's great book somehow leaves you awe-inspired by the sheer outrageousness of the human ingenuity that has created this toxic mess."-- Jeff Goodell, author of the New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First, "Clapp is a lively writer, and his deeply researched book deftly combines history and global economics with stories of real people and tangible details of modern life. You will never look at plastic bags the same way."-- The Washington Post, "Clapp's concern is less about the global effect, though he acknowledges the widespread pollution and effects on climate change, than the inequalities of distribution of the rubbish itself. In a sense it's a kind of critique of capitalist consumption and its economic disparities made by looking not at the buying power but throwing away power of the wealthy. It's a book about how the global north dumps on the global south."-- The Guardian, " Waste Wars is an infuriating, eye-opening and spell-binding account of the globally uneven and unjust politics of trash. Clapp shows how the rubbish the affluent people of rich countries produce travels to poorer countries for processing, creating mountains of toxic waste in the global South, or whirlpools of plastic in our oceans. A must-read for those concerned with the health and hygiene not only of the planet, but also of the people who populate it!"-- Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade, "Superb reporting that definitively answers the question we really never ask: where on earth does all that stuff go when we're done with it? This majestic account will transform the way you look at trash--and hopefully it will spur some real change at the highest levels."-- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Synopsis
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. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents to report deep inside the world of Javanese recycling gangsters, cruise ship dismantlers in the Aegean, Tanzanian plastic pickers, whistle-blowing environmentalists throughout the jungles of Guatemala, and a community of Ghanaian boys who burn Western cellphones and televisions for cents an hour, to tell readers what he has figured out: While some trash gets tossed onto roadsides or buried underground, much of it actually lives a secret hot potato second life, getting shipped, sold, re-sold, or smuggled from one country to another, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations of the world. Waste Wars is a jaw-dropping exposé of how and why, for the last forty years, our garbage -- the stuff we deem so worthless we think nothing of throwing it away -- has spawned a massive, globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar economy, one that offloads our consumption footprints onto distant continents, pristine landscapes, and unsuspecting populations. If the handling of our trash reveals deeper truths about our Western society, what does the globalized business of garbage say about our world today? And what does it say about us?
LC Classification Number
HD9975.A2C53 2025
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- l***. (20)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook was in good condition, just as listed. Thank you!
- 3***i (264)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAll four corners of the book were dented and bent when I opened the plastic mailing bag. There was obviously not enough packaging to protect the book. I found this disappointing. Yes it was good value, but I would have preferred it to have been packaged properly
- 8***u (336)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem was in great condition and arrived quickly. thanks!
- e***c (444)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBooks arrived on time and in excellent condition.