From the book description:
\nDum ps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given ris e to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmish es. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale\, one thing is true about almost all of them: few peo ple have any idea they&rsquo\;re happening.
\nJournalist Al exander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents to report deep insid e the world of Javanese recycling gangsters\, cruise ship dismantlers in t he Aegean\, Tanzanian plastic pickers\, whistle-blowing environmentalists throughout the jungles of Guatemala\, and a community of Ghanaian boys who burn Western cellphones and televisions for cents an hour\, to tell reade rs what he has figured out: While some trash gets tossed onto roadsides or buried underground\, much of it actually lives a secret hot potato second life\, getting shipped\, sold\, re-sold\, or smuggled from one country to another\, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations of the world.
\nWaste Wars is a jaw-dropping exposé\; of how and why\, for the last forty years\, our garbage &mdash\; the stuff w e deem so worthless we think nothing of throwing it away &mdash\; has spaw ned a massive\, globe-spanning\, multi-billion-dollar economy\, one that o ffloads our consumption footprints onto distant continents\, pristine land scapes\, and unsuspecting populations. If the handling of our trash reveal s deeper truths about our Western society\, what does the globalized busin ess of garbage say about our world today? And what does it say about us?
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