In Turkey a citrus farmer finds a pile of trash illegally dumped and burned.
In Ghana, a group of dumpster divers dig through digital remains to find data to use for online scams.
And in Indonesia - where New Zealand sends some of its plastic recycling - there are mountains of stuff now being used as fuel in bakeries.
That is the picture painted in journalist Alexander Clapp's book Waste Wars where he travels the world following and documenting what is happening in the multi-billion dollar trash trade.
Alexander argues that for every story of a commodity going through supply chains - there goes with it the untold tale of what happens to that consumer product.
He says it is a case of rich countries exporting their unwanted and expensive-to-deal-with waste off to poorer countries.
Alexander Clapp is a journalist based in Athens and talks to Kathryn about how his pursuit to understand the waste trade led him on a globetrotting journey.
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