Book review: The toxic truth behind the West’s deluded recycling myth

'Waste Wars' is a book that will make you angry because you believe that once you empty your bins and return your plastic bottle, that you have played your part in saving the world

An African man burns electronic waste on the biggest electronic scrap yard of Africa in Agbogbloshie, a district of Ghanaian capital Accra, where disused equipment is burned to receive usable metal. Picture: Getty

• Waste Wars 
• Alexander Clapp 
• John Murray Original Books, €36.25