Reviewed by Rakesh Kalshian
Brilliant muckraking
- Biblio: A Review of Books
- 30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.32-33
Waste wars: Dirty deals, international rivalries and the scandalous afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp, Hachette India, 2025. 390pp. Rs.799 (PB) ISBN 9759363390808.
Chap uses the incandescent power of words her literally, and figuratively, rake in the much of industrialism and raise an unbearable moral stink about how the global North, mainly Webern Europe and the United States, has been dumping its ever mounting toxic trash sludge, plastids, chemicals, metal scrap, radioactive waste, electronic waste and decommissioned ships, on unsuspecting propels of the global South through a Machiavellian web of political intrigue, financial blackmail, self delusion, and legal skullduggery, often in collusion with the ruling elite of the lathe. Reproduced