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“... already a favoured alternative destination, was willing to assume much of the burden.In Wasteland Oliver Franklin-Wallis visits Ghazipur outside Delhi, a garbage mountain of an estimated 14 million tonnes, 65 metres high and covering 28 hectares, to which 2500 tonnes of rubbish are added daily. Five thousand waste-pickers work its slopes, often working ...”

“... to fully measure the extent to which China’s economic miracle was enabled by Western waste,’ Oliver Franklin-Wallis writes in Wasteland (2023). Such cheap raw material proved irresistible to the country’s growing manufacturing base, even as polluted waste water flowed into Chinese towns and dioxins killed off livestock populations. But as purity ...”