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Serial Twitter user here. 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.

In one month:

“Like polluted sunsets and iridescent oil slicks, end-of-life electronics can be quite beautiful.” Dan Piepenbring on Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (Little, Brown and Co). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“Those of us who’ve rotted in cubicles may take a perverse pleasure in the towers of keyboards that refuse to rot. They stand as monuments to waste—and to time wasted.” Dan Piepenbring on Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“This garbage economy operates on the periphery of legality.” Dan Piepenbring on Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (Little, Brown and Co). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"The phrase 'to throw away' is more viscerally expulsive than even our terms for bodily functions, with the possible exception of 'to throw up'—which, in spite of or because of the generosity of Clapp’s reporting, is what I felt like doing." -- Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"Clapp has performed an important and courageous service by exposing the workings of this furtive activity to sunlight." ft.com/content/6545b9…

“Little, Brown has given Waste Wars a bright cover, maybe to telegraph the abundant humor and humanity of Clapp’s prose.” Dan Piepenbring on Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (Little, Brown and Co). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"Meanwhile, as the Soviet Union and its communist satellites imploded, the number of potential recipient nations"—for rich countries' trash—"mushroomed and attitudes towards the trade became more permissive" ft.com/content/6545b9…

For The New York Times I wrote about what trash is doing to our planet. For more analysis, and some potential answers to the crisis, please consider ordering my book, Waste Wars. nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opi…

The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opi…

I really feel like more people need to read up about Marinakis, specifically ‘The Vampire Ship’ newrepublic.com/article/159252…