Waste Wars: How rich nations legally dump toxic waste on poor countries

How the rich world exploits loopholes to legally dump toxic waste on poor nations in Asia, Africa and South America

Waste Wars: Dirt Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish 

by Alexander Clapp 

Published by Hachette

390 pages ₹799  The cover blurb by historian Adam Tooze describes Waste Wars as a “mind-altering and unforgettable read”. That could as well be a statutory warning. Waste Wars is a bleak expose of the lethal consequences of globalisation and its end-product — garbage. As author Alexander Clapp establishes at the start, “You are currently living in a world in which the human ability to create garbage — or eventual garbage — has surpassed Earth’s ability to generate life.”

 

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