"Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere we look. Some are border skirmishes. Others involve hustling trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: Few people have any idea they're happening ... Waste Wars is a[n] ... exposé of how and why, for the past forty years, our garbage has spawned a massive, globe-spanning, multibillion-dollar economy, one that off-loads our consumption footprints onto distant continents, pristine landscapes, and unsuspecting populations"-- Dust jacket flap.
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