Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Clapp sounds the alarm ... Despite such depressing conclusions, reading Waste Wars isn’t depressing. Clapp is a lively writer, and his deeply researched book deftly combines history and global economics with stories of real people and tangible details of modern life. You will never look at plastic bags the same way.
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Clapp has performed an important and courageous service by exposing the workings of this furtive activity to sunlight. One can take the view that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with moving trash across borders to manage it; but it is hard to see much upside from the way the trade has evolved.
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Little, Brown has given Waste Wars a bright cover, maybe to telegraph the abundant humor and humanity of Clapp’s prose. And yet. You can absorb only so much polychlorinated biphenyl and polybrominated diphenyl ether before you realize you’re being poisoned. As indictments of globalism go, the trash trade is almost too perfect: too stupefyingly myopic; too ceaseless, vast, and sad.
