Alexander Clapp

journalist. author of WASTE WARS. contact: [email protected]

[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

Serial Twitter user 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.

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I really feel like more people need to read up about Marinakis, specifically ‘The Vampire Ship’

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[Plastic Pollutes @PlasticPollutes]

The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic

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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

For @nytimes I wrote about what trash is doing to our planet. For more analysis, and some potential answers to the crisis, please consider ordering my book, Waste Wars.

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[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

"Meanwhile, as the Soviet Union and its communist satellites imploded, the number of potential recipient nations"—for rich countries' trash—"mushroomed and attitudes towards the trade became more permissive" https://t.co/0YyhmOq2xY

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“Little, Brown has given Waste Wars a bright cover, maybe to telegraph the abundant humor and humanity of Clapp’s prose.”

Dan Piepenbring on @alexander_clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (@littlebrown).

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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

"Clapp has performed an important and courageous service by exposing the workings of this furtive activity to sunlight."

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[Little, Brown and Co @littlebrown]

"The phrase 'to throw away' is more viscerally expulsive than even our terms for bodily functions, with the possible exception of 'to throw up'—which, in spite of or because of the generosity of Clapp’s reporting, is what I felt like doing." -- @Harpers https://t.co/DUN8yzEWfq

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“This garbage economy operates on the periphery of legality.”

Dan Piepenbring on @alexander_clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (@littlebrown).

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[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“Those of us who’ve rotted in cubicles may take a perverse pleasure in the towers of keyboards that refuse to rot. They stand as monuments to waste—and to time wasted.”

Dan Piepenbring on @alexander_clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash.

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[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“Like polluted sunsets and iridescent oil slicks, end-of-life electronics can be quite beautiful.”

Dan Piepenbring on @alexander_clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (@littlebrown).

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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

Serial Twitter user 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.

[Nicholas Mulder @njtmulder]

Alex Clapp’s forthcoming book on the political economy of the global garbage trade, Waste Wars, is phenomenal. Forthcoming February 25.
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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

Serial Twitter user 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.

[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

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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[Alexander Clapp @alexander_clapp]

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