Waste

They Poisoned the World delivers a gripping, deeply reported exposé that reads like a thriller as it uncovers the global devastation wrought by PFAS and other toxic chemicals—and the corporate deception that enabled their spread.

Adam Minter travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.

This is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look.