‘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...

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:

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.

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...

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...

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...

In one month:

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

"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

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.