A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists.
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Alexander Clapp is a journalist and writer based in Greece. His reporting has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Economist, the London Review of Books, and The Guardian Long Read. Clapp is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, among them a Whiting Nonfiction Grant, Matthew Power Literary Reporting Prize, Robert B. Silvers Reporting Grant, and a Pulitzer Center Breakthrough Journalism Award. He has also received the Alistair Horne Fellowship at Oxford and a Berggruen Fellowship in Los Angeles.
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