Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish

Name: Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish
Author: Alexander Clapp
ISBN: 9781399803137

by Alexander Clapp

ISBN: 9781399803137

Published: 2025-02-27

Law

A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists. The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's ability to create garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to create life. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing, and disputes about what to do with the tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged in just about every country on earth. Some are border skirmishes, fought to move trash out of one place and dump it into another. Others are waged across thousands of miles. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. For every story about how a commodity gets hustled through world supply chains for consumption, there exists another untold story about how...

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