Adam Minter's Blog, page 12
August 2, 2012
The Exxon Valdez’s Eco-Friendly Afterlife
The ship once-known as the Exxon Valdez is about to become a bunch of structural steel in West India’ s Gujarat state. It a fascinating story about how the ship responsible for the second largest oil spill in US waters (since … Continue reading →
July 23, 2012
The Land of a Million Scrapped Televisions
Below, a photo I recently took in a warehouse roughly 80 km from an inland Chinese city with a population around 8 million people. If it’s not clear in the image, those are televisions. Tens of thousands of scrapped, no-longer-wanted … Continue reading →
July 17, 2012
Junkyard Planet
This just in: I’ve turned in the manuscript to my first book, Junkyard Planet, to Bloomsbury Press. It’s a first-person account of the globalizing waste and recycling industry, from the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the grimy scrap boomtowns … Continue reading →
May 6, 2012
Offline until JULY 8
For the next month, give or take, I’ll be in a secure, undisclosed location finishing a book for Bloomsbury Press about the globalization of the recycling and waste trade. By design, I’ll have sporadic access to email, so if you contact … Continue reading →
