Waste wars the wild afterlife of your trash
"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...
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown and Company,
2025.
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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?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
