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It examines key stages from the “Toxic Tropics” and e-waste flows to Europe and the Aegean, then follows the movement of plastic into the Pacific. The book culminates in a synthesis of where waste goes and what that means for the future of waste governance.","Copyright © 2025 by Alexander Clapp Cover design by Julianna Lee Cover illustration by Garry Walton  \nCover copyright © 2025 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.  \nHachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture.  \nThe scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author ’s intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please [contact permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your](contact permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your)[ ](contact permissions@hbgusa.com. 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All rights administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC; here from Nikos Kavadias,“Mal du départ,” inheritor of rights of Nikos Kavadias.  \nISBN 9780316459235 LCCN 2024941719  \nE3-20250109-JV-NF-ORI  \nCONTENTS  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nIntroduction: Mayhem in Mesopotamia  \nPart One: Toxic Tropics  \n1. Banana Republic  \n2. The Chemical Century  \n3. Cash for Trash  \n4. Debt and Development  \n5. Merchants of Disease  \n6. Guns and Germs  \n7. Trash Ash Odyssey  \n8. Rising Up  \n9. American Exceptionalism  \n10. The Waste Trade Strikes Back  \nPart Two: E-Waste on the Odaw  \n11. State and Slum  \n12. To the Quays ofTema  \n13. Treasure  \n14. Logging On  \n15. Technological Tinkering  \n16. The Flexible Mine  \n17. Start-Up Cesspools  \n18. ANew Agbogbloshie?  \n19. Going Fishing  \n20. Magical Things  \nPart Three: Aegean Abomination  \n21. Global Junk Heap  \n22. Shipping Out  \n23. Into the Heart of Anatolia  \n24. Deadly Business  \n25. Scrap Shepherds  \n26. Scrap Nation  \n27. At Europe’s Edge  \n28. Greeks Bearing Gifts  \n29. Coming Home  \nPart Four: Pacific Plastic  \n30. A Long Journey  \n31. Plastification  \n32. The Greatest Miracle Yet  \n33. One-Man Multinational  \n34. Plastic China  \n35. Mad Scramble  \n36. ATrash Chief  \n37. A Trash Scion  \n38. Back to the Pacific  \nConclusion: Whither Waste?  \nAcknowledgments  \nNotes  \nDiscover More  \nAbout the Author  \nAdvance Praise for Waste Wars  \nFor my dad","cbCais8E34ZAmQja","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais8E34ZAmQja","pdf",6968909,347,"English","en",105,"# Introduction: Mayhem in Mesopotamia\n# Part One: Toxic Tropics\n## Banana Republic\n## The Chemical Century\n## Cash for Trash\n## Debt and Development\n## Merchants of Disease\n## Guns and Germs\n## Trash Ash Odyssey\n## Rising Up\n## American Exceptionalism\n## The Waste Trade Strikes Back\n# Part Two: E-Waste on the Odaw\n## State and Slum\n## To the Quays ofTema\n## Treasure\n## Logging On\n## Technological Tinkering\n## The Flexible Mine\n## Start-Up Cesspools\n## ANew Agbogbloshie?\n## Going Fishing\n## Magical Things\n# Part Three: Aegean Abomination\n## Global Junk Heap\n## Shipping Out\n## Into the Heart of Anatolia\n## Deadly Business\n## Scrap Shepherds\n## Scrap Nation\n## At Europe’s Edge\n## Greeks Bearing 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