Alexander Clapp
@alexclapp.bsky.social
journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com
Pinned
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.
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
‘Pelado’s confession may have settled the immediate question of who killed Phillips and Pereira. The bigger question is why Pelado was convinced he could get away with murder.’
Aklexander Clapp on what Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murders reveal about the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Aklexander Clapp on what Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murders reveal about the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Clapp · Diary: In the Amazon
As the journalist Dom Phillips came to see it, the deforestation of the Amazon was the work of a stupendously profitable...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
‘Pelado’s confession may have settled the immediate question of who killed Phillips and Pereira. The bigger question is why Pelado was convinced he could get away with murder.’
Aklexander Clapp on what Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murders reveal about the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Aklexander Clapp on what Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murders reveal about the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
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...
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
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...
In one month:
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:
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
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...
bit.ly
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
Reposted by Alexander Clapp
"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
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.
www.amazon.com/Waste-Wars-W...
bookshop.org/p/books/wast...
www.amazon.com/Waste-Wars-W...
bookshop.org/p/books/wast...
November 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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.
www.amazon.com/Waste-Wars-W...
bookshop.org/p/books/wast...
www.amazon.com/Waste-Wars-W...
bookshop.org/p/books/wast...
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.