Alexander Clapp
@alexclapp.bsky.social
journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com
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Alexander Clapp
@alexclapp.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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 got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.
You can read it here:
You can read it here:
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.
You can read it here:
You can read it here:
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
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.
November 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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.
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com! I write about "dystopian reality" of the global waste trade, reviewing a brilliant new book by @alexclapp.bsky.social (@littlebrown.bsky.social)
"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage
A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.
www.theatlantic.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com! I write about "dystopian reality" of the global waste trade, reviewing a brilliant new book by @alexclapp.bsky.social (@littlebrown.bsky.social)
"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
For @nytimes.com I wrote about what trash is doing to our planet. For much more analysis, and some potential answers to the crisis, please consider ordering my book, Waste Wars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | I’ve Seen the World Our Trash Makes, and It’s Terrifying
The world’s poorer nations have never stopped being receptacles for the West’s rubbish.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
For @nytimes.com I wrote about what trash is doing to our planet. For much more analysis, and some potential answers to the crisis, please consider ordering my book, Waste Wars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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The wonderful journalist Alexander Clapp (@alexclapp.bsky.social) has a book coming out shortly with @littlebrown.bsky.social; very excited to read this! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...
Waste Wars
A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar glob...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The wonderful journalist Alexander Clapp (@alexclapp.bsky.social) has a book coming out shortly with @littlebrown.bsky.social; very excited to read this! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...
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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.
January 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In one month:
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In less than a decade, Ecuador evolved into a narco-state. How did it happened?
“They’ve built a parallel state. Just as you or I pay taxes to our countries, so here residents pay taxes to the gangs.”
Report by grantee Alexander Clapp for @economist.com. bit.ly/4fLcxC3
“They’ve built a parallel state. Just as you or I pay taxes to our countries, so here residents pay taxes to the gangs.”
Report by grantee Alexander Clapp for @economist.com. bit.ly/4fLcxC3
A Journey Through the World’s Newest Narco-State
Drugs transformed Ecuador from a Latin American success story into a war zone Resting on a crest of highland overlooking Ecuador’s Pacific coast, Los Bajos is a squalid collection of rough brick homes...
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November 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM
In less than a decade, Ecuador evolved into a narco-state. How did it happened?
“They’ve built a parallel state. Just as you or I pay taxes to our countries, so here residents pay taxes to the gangs.”
Report by grantee Alexander Clapp for @economist.com. bit.ly/4fLcxC3
“They’ve built a parallel state. Just as you or I pay taxes to our countries, so here residents pay taxes to the gangs.”
Report by grantee Alexander Clapp for @economist.com. bit.ly/4fLcxC3
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"I believe the money involved in this field" - toxic waste importation - "will exceed that of drugs and may take its place as a fueling force in this country."
-1992 activist letter re: Guatemala in Waste Wars by @alexclapp.bsky.social
hardcover.app/books/waste-...
#CurrentlyReading #amreading
-1992 activist letter re: Guatemala in Waste Wars by @alexclapp.bsky.social
hardcover.app/books/waste-...
#CurrentlyReading #amreading
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
"I believe the money involved in this field" - toxic waste importation - "will exceed that of drugs and may take its place as a fueling force in this country."
-1992 activist letter re: Guatemala in Waste Wars by @alexclapp.bsky.social
hardcover.app/books/waste-...
#CurrentlyReading #amreading
-1992 activist letter re: Guatemala in Waste Wars by @alexclapp.bsky.social
hardcover.app/books/waste-...
#CurrentlyReading #amreading
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.
November 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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.