The Trash Ship That Became a Symbol of America’s Toxic Waste Problem
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The Trash Ship That Became a Symbol of America’s Toxic Waste Problem
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In the 1980s, Philadelphia was in the midst of a trash crisis. A sanitation workers’ strike had left the city with an immense backlog of garbage. The solution: Ship it overseas, on a rusting cargo vessel called the Khian Sea. But when one country after another refused to take Philly’s waste, it turned the Khian Sea’s trash voyage into a trash odyssey, and shed light on a growing problem that critics came to call “garbage imperialism.”
Featured in this episode:
Kenny Bruno
Sources:
Simone M. Müller’s book The Toxic Ship
Alexander Clapp’s book Waste Wars
Planet Money’s reporting on the Mobro 4000: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/739893511
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