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Alexander Clapp

@alexclapp.bsky.social
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journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/02/2026
‘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...
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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...
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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:
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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...
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Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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.
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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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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.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In one month:
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 29/11/2024
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
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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...
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Jeff Sexton @bookanon.com · 23/11/2024
"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
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Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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.
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