حروب النفايات: الحياة البرية لما بعد النفايات

This in-depth, globe-trotting investigative work is the first major book to expose the catastrophic truth of the multi-billion-dollar global waste trade. Landfills around the world are overcrowded. Disputes over how to dispose of the millions of tons of waste produced daily have led to waste wars almost everywhere. Some are border skirmishes, others transport waste across thousands of miles and oceans. But regardless of their size, there is one fact that almost all of them have in common: few people realize that they happen. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years traversing five continents to report in-depth on the world of recycling gangs in Java, cruise ship dismantlers in the Aegean, plastic pickers in Tanzania, environmental activists exposing wrongdoing throughout the jungles of Guatemala, and a community of Ghanaian boys who burn cell phones and Western televisions for cents an hour, telling readers what he discovered: while some trash is dumped on roadsides or buried underground, Much of it actually lives a secret second life, being shipped, sold, resold or smuggled from one country to another, often with disastrous consequences for the world's poorest countries. Waste Wars stunningly reveals how and why, over the past 40 years, our waste—the things we consider so worthless that we don't care to throw them away—has given rise to a multibillion-dollar global mega-economy, one that projects the effects of our consumption onto distant continents, pristine landscapes, and unaware populations. If the way we deal with our waste reveals deeper truths about our Western society, what does the globalized waste trade say about our world today? What do you say about us?